Race, Anthropology and (De)coloniality

Diego Ballestero is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn and at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University.Erik Petschelies is Postdoctoral Fellow in Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

• Foreword -Han VermeulenIntroduction - Diego Ballestero and Erik PetscheliesPart 1: Unravelling the traces of coloniality: The epistemological construction of “race” in the Global South and North1. Race, Miscegenation, and Darwinism in 19th Century Brazil - Erik Petschelies 2. Racialization in post-colonial anthropology: some notes on the historiography of race (and caste) for a decolonial anthropology - Thiago Pinto Barbosa 3. Brésil, Terre Rouge: Race and Gender in the Notebooks of Dina Dreyfus Lévi-Strauss - Fernanda Azeredo de Moraes 4. Georg Forster on Race from Vilnius, 1785-1787: Transformations and (De)coloniality - Vida Savoniakaite Part 2: The intertwined threads of coloniality: Studies about and beyond race5. Spaces of Coloniality and Racialised Bodies. Anthropological Research on the Qom in late 19th-century Argentina - Diego Ballestero 6. Race as a Structural Element of the Portuguese Colonial System and the Participation of Anthropology in that Process in the first half of the 20th century - Patrícia Ferraz de Matos 7. The Eastern African Safari: Colonialist Roots, Jungles and Aftermaths - Oduor Obura8. Is being proud of being an Asian an oxymoron? An experimental approach to self-reflexive decolonising processes on race and knowledge - Shikoh Shiraiwa Afterword - Adam Kuper