Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America
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- ISBN 9781836955450
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cesare Lombroso is considered the founder of criminology with his theory of distinguishing criminals from noncriminal by physical oddities. This book argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and Latin American schools. From racial ideas in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century to the voyages of Lombroso’s collaborators to South America and his legacy after his passing, Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America is presented through an anthropologist’s eye through interpretation of many explored and unexplored historical documents.
Livio Sansone is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is the Head of the Factory of Ideas Program – an advanced international course in ethnic and African studies and coordinates the Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Heritage. His best-known books in English are Blackness Without Ethnicity: Creating Race in Brazil (Palgrave, 2003) and Field Station Bahia (Brill, 2023).
