Colours of the Empire

Patrícia Ferraz de Matos is an anthropologist whose work focuses on the history of Portuguese anthropology and Portuguese colonialism. She received the Victor de Sá Prize of Contemporary History 2005 from the Cultural Council of the University of Minho, Portugal, when this work was first published in Portuguese. Her doctoral thesis was devoted to analyzing the work of the Portuguese anthropologist Mendes Correia and the production of the Anthropology School of Porto. At present she is a post doctoral researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon where she works on the international networks underlying the forging of scientific knowledge.

“The translation of this work from Portuguese to English is an important contribution to the study of national traditions in anthropology, frequently overlooked by scholarly research that tends to focus more on the English, American, and French cases.” · Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute“…makes a contribution to the growing weight and relevance of the Portuguese archive to colonial and imperial studies. It covers particularly the 1930s and 1940s as apogee decades of dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's fascist type regime, the longest of its kind in Europe (1926–1974).” · American Anthropologist“…a unique volume that traces discourse and representation on ‘race’ and racism within Portugal and the ‘overseas territories’. An exemplar of the new vigour with which the Portuguese academy has developed over the last decade… this is an important book on the history of the concept of ‘race’ in Portugal and the uses made of it with respect to concepts of the nation and for the political and economic rationales of the Salazar state.” · Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies“(…) a most worthy volume, that Portuguese and non-Portuguese scholars alike with an interest in issues of race and representation will appreciate.” · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change“[This book] offers an impressive inventory of colonial movies, exhibitions, speeches and writings that will be of great use. Readers interested in the history of colonial ideas and the role of anthropological knowledge in the colonial enterprise will find in this work a complete, well-documented case.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

• Tables and illustrationsAcknowledgementsAcronyms and abbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Origins of a prejudice:the roots of racial discriminationThe discovery of human variety:early formulationsThe emergence of ‘modern’ racismRacialism under attackChapter 2. Discourse, images, knowledge:the place of the colonies and their populations in the Portuguese Colonial EmpireThe formation of Portuguese colonialism and ‘colonial knowledge’The Colonial Act and the ‘creation’ of the IndígenaColonial propaganda:‘marketing the empire’Colonial representations in primary and secondary school readersCinema and colonialism in action:moving pictures on colonial themes (1928-53)Recurrent images and prejudicesThe production of ‘anthropological knowledge’ of the coloniesRacial purity, miscegenation and the appropriation of mythsChapter 3. Exhibiting the empire, imagining the nation:representations of the colonies and the overseas Portuguese in the great exhibitionsThe age of the great exhibitionsRepresentations of the Portuguese colonies, 1924-31A ‘Guinean village’ at the Lisbon Industrial Exhibition (1932)The Portuguese Colonial Exhibition of 1934:concept and objectivesRepresentations of the Portuguese colonies, 1934-39The Exhibition of the Portuguese World (1940):concept and objectivesColonial representations in Portugal dos PequenitosThe status of the colonized populations at the exhibitions: the exotic vs. the familiarConclusionsAppendix I: FilmAppendix II: Texts from the padrões of Portugal dos PequenitosBibliography