Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences

Adam Warren is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), and the coauthor of Baptism through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire (Penn State University Press, 2020). Julia E. Rodriguez is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire (USA). She is the author of Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) and editor of the open-source website HOSLAC: History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (www.hoslac.org). Stephen T. Casper is Professor of History at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. His research focuses on the history of the human sciences, neuroscience, and neurology, and his latest monograph, Punch Drunk and Dementia: A Cultural History of Concussion, 1870–Present, is under contract with Johns Hopkins Press and explores the cultural history of brain injury and violence in the modern world.

• Preface; 1. An introduction to troubling encounters Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez and Stephen T. Casper; Part I. Relationality in Field and Expedition Science: 2. 'Skull hunters on the pampa: anthropology as uncanny encounter in Argentina's 'last massacre'' Julia E. Rodriguez; 3. 'Subverting the anthropometric gaze: racial science in the 1912 Yale Peruvian expedition' Adam Warren; 4. 'Modest witnesses of violence: salvage ethnography and the capture of aché children' Sebastián Gil-Riaño; Part II. Institutional Encounters, Discipline, and Settler Colonial Logics: 5. 'Replacing native Hawaiian kinship with social scientific care: settler colonial transinstitutionalization of children in the territory of Hawai'i' Maile Arvin; 6. 'Port of epistemic riches: social science research and incarceration in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico' Alberto Ortiz-Díaz; 7. 'The imperial logic of American bioethics: holding science and history to account' Laura Stark; Part III. Governance, Politics, and Self-Determination: 8. 'Investigating Cuauhtémoc's bones: politics, truth, and mestizo nationalism in Mexico' Karin Rosemblatt; 9. 'Unequal encounters: debating resource scarcity, population, and hunger in the early cold war' Eve Buckley; 10. 'Bureaucratic vulnerability: possession, sovereignty, and relationality in Brazilian research regulation' Rosanna Dent; Conclusions and Epilogues: 11. 'Unsettling encounters' Stephen T. Casper; 12. 'Feel it in your bones: the difference indigenous studies makes' María Elena García; 13. 'The pole is back home' Gabriela Soto Laveaga; Works cited; Index.

'An original and outstanding collection of papers on the interaction of indigenous knowledge, history of science and imperial power. A must read for historians, anthropologists, Latin-Americanists and anyone interested in the ethics of research in the human and social sciences.' Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil