Troubling Encounters in the History of the Human Sciences: Latin America and the United States Empire, 1870s-2000s
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2022 - 2023
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Based on a 2018 Simpson Center workshop, this edited volume rethinks the history of the human sciences by expanding its critical lens theoretically and geographically. It explores histories of knowledge creation and ethics in the encounters between human scientists and their human and nonhuman material objects of study. By engaging scholarship in Indigenous, Pacific, and Latin American and Caribbean studies, it questions the relationship between the human sciences and empire and problematizes the structural conditions within human sciences research.
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