Headhunting and Colonialism
Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930| By: | R. Roque |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230222052 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230251335 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2010 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance.