1st Edition
Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)
By Maarten Couttenier
Copyright 2024
436 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
436 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
436 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of ‘race’ structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire.
In a context of competing European nationalisms, Belgian anthropologists mainly used physical characters, like skull form and the color of hair and eyes, to delimitate... Read more
1. Jean-Baptiste d’Omalius d’Halloy: Racial Classifications and the Attack on the Aryan Myth (1839-1864) 2. Léon Vanderkindere: Race and Evolution (1845-1882) 3. Victor Jacques and Emile Houzé: The Anthropological Society of Brussels (1882-1886) 4. A Myth that Escapes to Touch (1887-1897) 5. Craniological Alchemy (1897-1914) 6. Arrogance and Emancipation (1914-1922)
Biography
Maarten Couttenier is a historian and an anthropologist and is based at the History section of the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium). He specializes in the history of colonial museums, the history of science, and the history of Belgian colonization in general.
