Resumen de Brain and Race. A History of Cerebral Anthropology, by Claudio Pogliano
Claudio Pogliano, Brain and Race. A History of Cerebral Anthropology. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020. x, 350 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-42933-8.
The starting point of the ideas that historically distinguished humanity in a compartmentalized mosaic of different races was the color of the skin. Coupled with anthropometric data, the shape of the eyes and skull—and other somatic features—it became the basis for subdivision of mankind into four varieties (European, Asian, African, American), as proposed by Carl Linnaeus in the mid-eighteenth century. A few decades later the German anthropologist and naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach would have led to the classification ...
