Varieties of the Primitive: Human Biological Diversity Studies in Cold War Brazil (1962–1970)

dc.contributor.authorSantos, Ricardo Ventura
dc.contributor.authorLindee, Susan
dc.contributor.authorSouza, Vanderlei Sebastião de
dc.creator.affilliationFundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasilen_US
dc.creator.affilliationUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA. Department of History. Pennsylvania, PA, EUAen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-19T15:28:58Z
dc.date.available2019-09-19T15:28:58Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, anthropologists, science scholars, and historians of science have shown growing interest in the history of research in physical anthropology in the post–World War II period, although most of the studies concentrate on North America and Europe. Here we focus on the history of human biological diversity research in South America in the 1960s. We carry out a comparative analysis of the research programs coordinated by two influential North American researchers (the geneticists Newton Morton and James Neel) in Brazil. We analyze the genesis of the two projects in light of the scientific and sociopolitical alignments of the period, and we find that the research was strongly tied to the context of the Cold War. We also address the scientific perspectives and choice of study populations (Indians and mestic¸ os), as well as how the researchers attempted to construct far-reaching scientific models pertinent to the human species as a whole based on the concept of “primitiveness.” We argue that the research programs that Morton and Neel initiated in the 1960s are basic to the understanding of the history of physical anthropology not only in Brazil but also on a global scale in the decades following World War II.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSANTOS, Ricardo Ventura; LINDEE, Susan; SOUZA, Vanderlei Sebastião de. Varieties of the Primitive: Human Biological Diversity Studies in Cold War Brazil (1962–1970). American Anthropologist, v. 116, n. 4, p. 723-735, 2014.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/aman.12150
dc.identifier.issn0002-7294
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.bvspovosindigenas.fiocruz.br/handle/bvs/1054
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Anthropologisten_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subject.decsBrasilen_US
dc.subject.decsSaúde de Populações Indígenasen_US
dc.subject.decsÍndios Sul-Americanosen_US
dc.subject.decsLiteratura de Revisão como Assuntoen_US
dc.subject.decsGrupos Étnicosen_US
dc.subject.decsGenética Humanaen_US
dc.subject.otherBrasilen_US
dc.subject.otherÍndios Sul-Americanosen_US
dc.subject.otherSaúde de Populações Indígenasen_US
dc.subject.otherRevisãoen_US
dc.subject.otherGenética Humanaen_US
dc.subject.otherEtnicidadeen_US
dc.titleVarieties of the Primitive: Human Biological Diversity Studies in Cold War Brazil (1962–1970)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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