LEADER 02916nam 2200493 450 001 9910824587503321 005 20200923180050.0 010 $a90-04-43188-8 010 $a9789004431881$belectronic book 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004431881 035 $a(CKB)4100000010861184 035 $z(OCoLC)1143643529 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004431881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6216675 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010861184 100 $a20200923d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBrain and race $ea history of cerebral anthropology /$fClaudio Pogliano 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aNuncius series ;$vVolume 4 311 0 $a90-04-42933-6 327 $aIntroduction -- I. Eighteenth century onset -- 1. Darker skin and brain -- 2. Qualitative and quantitative differences -- 3. Speculations and objections -- II. Rising tide -- 1. The ?phrenological wedge? -- 2. Shrunken brains -- 3. Materialism and the Recapitulation theory -- 4. Weighing empty, filled spaces -- 5. The will to differentiate -- 6. Early doubts -- III. Climax -- 1. Uncertain certainty: Paris on stage -- 2. An intense decade -- 3. An urgent desideratum for science -- 4. Antinomies and Paradoxes -- 5. Orphans of Broca -- 6. A literature by itself -- IV. Twentieth century epilogue -- 1. Resilience despite everything -- 2. Further views in conflict -- 3. Innovating techniques, popular science, and deconstructing myths -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index of names. 330 $aSince the second half of the eighteenth century, generations of scientists persisted in studying the relationships between the volume, weight or shape of the human brain and the degree of ?intelligence?. In Pogliano?s book, the thread of time drives the narrative up to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates the duration and changes of a game that was intrinsically political, although having to do with bones and nervous matter. Races made its main object, during a long period when Western culture believed the human species to be naturally partitioned into a number of discrete types, with their innate and hereditary traits. Never leading to irrefutable achievements, the polycentric (as well as visual) enterprise herein described is full of growing tensions, doubts, and disillusionment. 410 0$aNuncius series ;$vVolume 4. 606 $aCraniometry$xHistory 606 $aBrain 606 $aRace 615 0$aCraniometry$xHistory. 615 0$aBrain. 615 0$aRace. 676 $a573.86 700 $aPogliano$b Claudio$f1953-$0155545 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824587503321 996 $aBrain and race$94086213 997 $aUNINA