Rosanna Dent
Biographic Data
| ID | 835479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosanna Dent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Dent |
| SIGNATURE | DENT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3360-2457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Controlling the Field
This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each employed to establish their historical accounts. Attending reflexively to the oral history encounter…
Whose Home Is the Field
Twentieth-century field research in the human sciences has repeatedly rendered specific communities and people as subjects of study. As scientists layered field upon field in the same spaces, subjects have gained their own forms of expertise. This essay examines the history of research in Terra Indígena Pimentel Barbosa, in what is now Central Brazil, to argue that fields are composed of human relations and that historians of science have the mor…
Subject 01
In 1962 a team of scientists conducted their first joint fieldwork in a Xavante village in Central Brazil. Recycling long-standing notions that living Indigenous people represented human prehistory, the scientists saw Indigenous people as useful subjects of study not only due to their closeness to nature, but also due to their sociocultural and political realities. The geneticists’ vision crystalized around one subject – the famous chief Apöwẽ. T…
The Xavante in perspective
Review ofCOIMBRA JR., C. E. A.; WELCH, J. R. (Org.). Antropologia ehistória Xavante em perspectiva. Rio de Janeiro: Museu doÍndio/Funai, 2014. 216p
Whose Home Is the Field
Twentieth-century field research in the human sciences has repeatedly rendered specific communities and people as subjects of study. As scientists layered field upon field in the same spaces, subjects have gained their own forms of expertise. This essay examines the history of research in Terra Indígena Pimentel Barbosa, in what is now Central Brazil, to argue that fields are composed of human relations and that historians of science have the mor…
The Xavante in perspective
Review ofCOIMBRA JR., C. E. A.; WELCH, J. R. (Org.). Antropologia ehistória Xavante em perspectiva. Rio de Janeiro: Museu doÍndio/Funai, 2014. 216p
Subject 01
In 1962 a team of scientists conducted their first joint fieldwork in a Xavante village in Central Brazil. Recycling long-standing notions that living Indigenous people represented human prehistory, the scientists saw Indigenous people as useful subjects of study not only due to their closeness to nature, but also due to their sociocultural and political realities. The geneticists’ vision crystalized around one subject – the famous chief Apöwẽ. T…
The Xavante in perspective
Review ofCOIMBRA JR., C. E. A.; WELCH, J. R. (Org.). Antropologia ehistória Xavante em perspectiva. Rio de Janeiro: Museu doÍndio/Funai, 2014. 216p
Subject 01
In 1962 a team of scientists conducted their first joint fieldwork in a Xavante village in Central Brazil. Recycling long-standing notions that living Indigenous people represented human prehistory, the scientists saw Indigenous people as useful subjects of study not only due to their closeness to nature, but also due to their sociocultural and political realities. The geneticists’ vision crystalized around one subject – the famous chief Apöwẽ. T…
Whose Home Is the Field
Twentieth-century field research in the human sciences has repeatedly rendered specific communities and people as subjects of study. As scientists layered field upon field in the same spaces, subjects have gained their own forms of expertise. This essay examines the history of research in Terra Indígena Pimentel Barbosa, in what is now Central Brazil, to argue that fields are composed of human relations and that historians of science have the mor…
Controlling the Field
This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each employed to establish their historical accounts. Attending reflexively to the oral history encounter…
Indigenous (3 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)