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Roque, Ricardo, Bangham, Jenny, Bovensiepen, Judith, Handman, Courtney, Keck, Frederic, Fassa, Emma Kowal, Mukharji, Projit Bihari, Storch, Anne and Roque, Ricardo Nuno Afonso (2022). Bleeding Languages Blood Types and Linguistic Groups in the Timor Anthropological Mission. Curr. Anthropol., 63 (2). S. 158 - 185. CHICAGO: UNIV CHICAGO PRESS. ISSN 1537-5382

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Abstract

This article explores the shared histories of blood groups, racial conceptions, and linguistics in the late twentieth-century Portuguese colonial science of anthropobiology in Oceania. It follows the work of making indigenous languages that went along with the work of making blood groups in a late form of colonial anthropology. It focuses on the case of the Timor Anthropological Mission (Missao Antropologica de Timor), a series of field expeditions to the then-Portuguese colony of East Timor sponsored by the Portuguese Overseas Research Board (Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar) between 1953 and 1974. A striking aspect of these expeditions was their simultaneous attachment to blood collecting and language categories in theory, in the field, and, subsequently, in processes of analysis, classification, and mapping. The article examines why and how, through a sequence of ontological transactions, linguistics blended with laboratory practices, theories of racial ethnogeny, and the blood samples themselves. I also intend to reflect on this case study as one example of how languages could be used to make biologized natures in twentieth-century racial sciences.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Roque, Ricardo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bangham, Jenny UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bovensiepen, Judith UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Handman, Courtney UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Keck, Frederic UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fassa, Emma Kowal UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mukharji, Projit Bihari UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Storch, Anne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Roque, Ricardo Nuno Afonso UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-690451
DOI:	10.1086/719788
Journal or Publication Title:	Curr. Anthropol.
Volume:	63
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 158 - 185
Date:	2022
Publisher:	UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
Place of Publication:	CHICAGO
ISSN:	1537-5382
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PEOPLES; HISTORIES Multiple languages Anthropology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/69045