Open AccessIntroduction
Author(s) -
H. Vermeulen,
Cláudio Costa Pinheiro,
Peter Schröder
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista de antropologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1678-9857
pISSN - 0034-7701
DOI - 10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2019.157872
Subject(s) - german , historiography , latin americans , history , german history , humanities , art history , political science , art , archaeology , law
The devastating fire in the 200-year-old Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro on September 2, 2018, demonstrates the vital importance of the historiography of sciences and the arts. As most collections have vanished, it is left to the history of science to pick up the pieces and present past developments in their complexity and global entanglements. In this special issue we aim to do this for the work of German and German-speaking anthropologists in Latin America, with a special focus on Brazil, carried out between the 1880s and 1945.