The Colours of the Empire

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"The translation of this work from Portuguese to English is an important contribution to the study of national traditions in anthropology, frequently overlooked by scholarly research that tends to focus more on the English, American, and French cases." ? Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute



"...makes a contribution to the growing weight and relevance of the Portuguese archive to colonial and imperial studies. It covers particularly the 1930s and 1940s as apogee decades of dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's fascist type regime, the longest of its kind in Europe (1926-1974)." ? American Anthropologist



"...a unique volume that traces discourse and representation on 'race' and racism within Portugal and the 'overseas territories'. An exemplar of the new vigour with which the Portuguese academy has developed over the last decade... this is an important book on the history of the concept of 'race' in Portugal and the uses made of it with respect to concepts of the nation and for the political and economic rationales of the Salazar state." ? Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies



"(...) a most worthy volume, that Portuguese and non-Portuguese scholars alike with an interest in issues of race and representation will appreciate." ? Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change



"[This book] offers an impressive inventory of colonial movies, exhibitions, speeches and writings that will be of great use. Readers interested in the history of colonial ideas and the role of anthropological knowledge in the colonial enterprise will find in this work a complete, well-documented case." ? Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale