Abstract
The article analyzes Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto's participation in the international debate that involved the field of physical anthropology and discussions on miscegenation in the first decades of the twentieth century. Special focus is on his readings and interpretations of a group of US anthropologists and eugenicists and his controversies with them, including Charles Davenport, Madison Grant, and Franz Boas. The article explores the various ways in which Roquette-Pinto interpreted and incorporated their ideas and how his anthropological interpretations took on new meanings when they moved beyond Brazil's borders.
Highlights
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the issue of miscegenation sparked much debate among Brazilian scientists and intellectuals and prompted the publication of many scientific and literary essays in the country
Ranked among the Brazilian intellectuals who were most focused on studies of miscegenation, the physician and anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto (1884-1954) engaged in a dialogue with these different interpretations
A 1905 graduate of the Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine (Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro), Roquette-Pinto spent a good part of his career doing research in physical anthropology and worked as an anthropologist and ethnographer at Brazil’s National Museum (Museu Nacional) from 1905 to 1935
Summary
Science and miscegenation in the early twentieth century: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s debates and controversies with US physical anthropology. Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v.23, n.3, jul.-set.
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