Item 2018-10 - The colonial ethnological line: Timor and the racial geography of the malay archipelago: artigo Ricardo Roque

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Roque R. The colonial ethnological line: Timor and the racial geography of the Malay Archipelago. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 2018;49(3):387-409. doi:10.1017/S0022463418000322
Artigo publicado depois como capítulo em monografia editada por Ricardo Roque e Warwick Anderson, Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia, pela Brill 2023.

This article examines the connected histories of racial science and colonial geography in Island Southeast Asia. By focusing on the island of Timor, it explores colonial boundaries as modes of arranging racial classifications, and racial typologies as forms of articulating political geography. Portuguese physical anthropologist António Mendes Correia’s work on the ethnology of East Timor is examined as expressive of these productive connections. Correia’s classificatory work ingeniously blended political geography and racial taxonomy. Between 1916 and 1945, mainly based on data from the Portuguese enclave of Oecussi and Ambeno, he claimed a distinct Malayan racial type for the whole colony of ‘Portuguese Timor’. Over the years he developed an anthropogeographical theory that simultaneously aimed to reclassify East Timor and to revise the racial cartography of the Malay Archipelago, including Wallace’s famous ethnological line.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/colonial-ethnological-line-timor-and-the-racial-geography-of-the-malay-archipelago/56FD57B8FFE7598B2D0236A66AD86A92

Creditado ao AHS, p. 79 (livro)

Pedido: Ricardo Roque (ICS-ULisboa)

criado ip 2024-09