Abstract
An interview by the editor and a member of the scientific board of História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos with Warwick Anderson, a leading historian of science and race from Australia. He talks about his training, positions he held at US universities, his publications, and his research at the University of Sydney. He discusses his current concern with the circulation of racial knowledge and biological materials as well as with the construction of networks of racial studies in the global south during the twentieth century. He also challenges the traditional historiography of science, which conventionally has been told from a Eurocentric perspective.
Highlights
Marcos Cueto (MC): We are here with Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Ventura Santos, co-organizers of the workshop “Racial conceptions in the twentieth century: comparisons, connections and circulations in the Portuguese-speaking global south,” which took place in Rio de Janeiro from April 5 to 7, 2016
Few people had written about the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine (AITM), which was created in the early twentieth century
Ricardo Ventura Santos (RV): Why did you choose the US? As I am old enough to be a “child” of the British Empire, I was thinking of Britain
Summary
Marcos Cueto (MC): We are here with Warwick Anderson (born in 1958) and Ricardo Ventura Santos (member of the editorial board of História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos), co-organizers (with Ricardo Roque) of the workshop “Racial conceptions in the twentieth century: comparisons, connections and circulations in the Portuguese-speaking global south,” which took place in Rio de Janeiro from April 5 to 7, 2016. Charles Rosenberg, whose work is infused with social science, became my PhD advisor – and I developed an interest in the history of anthropology through Henrika Kuklick, who was a good friend and mentor for years.[2] It became clear to me while I was at Penn that my interest in the history of racial thought and practice, initially expressed through the research on the AITM in northern Australia, could draw on many of the insights of anthropology, as well as science studies.
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