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The blood that remains: card collections from the colonial anthropological missions
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In this paper I discuss the history of colonial collections through a focus on the social
life of a set of blood group cards held by Portuguese institutions since the 1950s. Between the
1940s and 1960s, a series of anthropological field expeditions were organized by the
Portuguese Overseas Science Research Board to the then Portuguese colonies in Africa and
Asia. A large number of samples of indigenous blood were collected on blood group paper
cards in the course of these campaigns. The cards were then stored in Portugal and used for
racial serological studies until the 1980s. Thereafter, the collection survived various institutional
deaths. Throughout its post-colonial existence in Portuguese institutions, the cards
seem to have moved ambivalently between a condition of valued asset and one of obsolete
material. And yet they revealed a resilient capacity to mediate conceptions of historical
time. Thus the essay asks what it might mean to approach these collections as colonial
‘chronotope’ – devices for connecting space and time – and how and why they endured
through various ends, culminating as a genetically contaminated museum object.
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Roque, R. (2019). The blood that remains: card collections from the colonial anthropological missions. BJHS Themes, 4, 29-53
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Cambridge University Press