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Cesare Lombroso in Latin America

The Legacy of a Controversial Criminologist

Livio Sansone

256 pages, 16 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-545-0 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-546-7 eBook Not Yet Published


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Cesare Lombroso is considered the founder of criminology with his theory 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 Lombroso’s voyages to South America and his legacy after his passing, Cesare Lombroso in Latin America is presented through an anthropologist’s eye through interpretation of many explored and unexplored historical documents.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. He has done research in the UK, Holland, Suriname, Brazil, Italy, Cape Verde, Senegal, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau. His best-known book in English is Blackness Without Ethnicity: Creating Race in Brazil (Palgrave 2003).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyHistory (General)Sociology
Area: Latin America and the Caribbean


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