Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology by Pogliano, Claudio

Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004429338)

Vendor: Claudio Pogliano
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Format: Hardcover
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Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology by Pogliano, Claudio

Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology

$205.00
Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology by Pogliano, Claudio

Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology

$205.00
Format: Hardcover
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Since the second half of the eighteenth century, generations of scientists persisted in studying the relationships between the volume, weight or shape of the human brain and the degree of 'intelligence'. In Pogliano's book, the thread of time drives the narrative up to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates the duration and changes of a game that was intrinsically political, although having to do with bones and nervous matter. Races made its main object, during a long period when Western culture believed the human species to be naturally partitioned into a number of discrete types, with their innate and hereditary traits. Never leading to irrefutable achievements, the polycentric (as well as visual) enterprise herein described is full of growing tensions, doubts, and disillusionment.

Author: Claudio Pogliano
ISBN-10: 9004429336
ISBN-13: 9789004429338
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2020
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Claudio Pogliano
By Claudio Pogliano
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Claudio Pogliano is Professor of History of science at the University of Pisa. He has published numerous monographs and articles, especially in his main area of interest: the modern and contemporary history of biomedical and anthropological sciences, with a particular regard to their visual aspects.

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