TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pogliano,Claudio
TI  - Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology 
T2  - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2020
SN  - 9789004429338
AV  - GN71 
U1  - 573.8/6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Brain
KW  - Craniometry
KW  - History
KW  - Race
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Copyright Page; Claudio Pogliano -- Illustrations; Claudio Pogliano -- Introduction; Claudio Pogliano -- Eighteenth-century Onset; Claudio Pogliano -- Rising Tide; Claudio Pogliano -- Climax; Claudio Pogliano -- Twentieth-century Epilogue; Claudio Pogliano -- Summary; Claudio Pogliano -- Bibliography; Claudio Pogliano -- Index of Names; Claudio Pogliano
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004431881
ER  -