Cesare Lombroso's Legacy in Latin America

How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Cesare Lombroso is considered the founder of criminology with his theory distinguishing criminals from noncriminal by physical oddities. This book argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and Latin American schools. From racial ideas in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century to Lombroso’s voyages to South America and his legacy after his passing, Cesare Lombroso in Latin America is presented through an anthropologist’s eye through interpretation of many explored and unexplored historical documents.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836955450

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Livio Sansone is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is the head of the Factory of Ideas Program – an advanced international course in ethnic and African studies and coordinates the Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Heritage. He has done research in the UK, Holland, Suriname, Brazil, Italy, Cape Verde, Senegal, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau. His best-known book in English is Blackness Without Ethnicity: Creating Race in Brazil (Palgrave 2003).

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List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: In the Footsteps of Nina RodriguesChapter 1. The Racial Question in the Late 1800sChapter 2. The Lombroso Galaxy as Global Home ScienceChapter 3. Encounters and Clashes in South AmericaChapter 4. The Role of Brazil and Latin America in the Geopolitics of Knowledge: Race and PositivismConclusion: Final Reflections on the Circulation of Lombroso’s Ideas in Latin AmericaAppendix: From Italy to the World: The Journey of Lombroso’s IdeasBibliographyIndex