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Research Context

France | United Kingdom | United States of America

Research Interests

History of anthropology | Etnographical archive | Colonialism

Institutional Subunit

NOVA FCSH

Biographical Note

Frederico Delgado Rosa is a comparative historian of anthropology, working on the Major Traditions' formative periods and on peripheral ones as well. Among other works, he authored a history of the totemic debate (2003). He presently works on ethnographic monographs written during the period c. 1870-1922. He is the codirector, with Christine Laurière, of BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, and the series 'Les Carnets de Bérose'. Since August 2018, he is co-convenor, with Han Vermeulen, of the History of Anthropology Network (HOAN) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Keywords: History of anthropology, modern and pre-modern ethnographies, colonialism, north-american, oceanic, african, and european contexts.

All projects

Data updated on 19-03-2025, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2022/01/01-2026/12/31

HITAL - Transatlantic History of Latin-American Anthropologies / International Research Network - INSHS (CNRS)

IRN

Researcher

UMR9022 Héritages

Financiers: CNRS InSHS

2016-

BEROSE Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie

Accord-cadre quinquennal (2016-2020), Ministère de la culture (França), CNRS, IIAC

Principal investigator

Héritages – Culture(s), Patrimoine(s), Création(s) (UMR 9022)

Financiers: Ministère de la culture (França); Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain; Héritages – Culture(s), Patrimoine(s), Création(s) (UMR 9022)

2010/04/01-2013/09/30

As ciências da classificação antropológica em 'Timor Português' 1894-1975

HC/0089/2009

Researcher

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2010/04/01-2013/09/30

As ciências da classificação antropológica em 'Timor Português' 1894-1975

HC/0089/2009

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Highlighted Publications

Data updated on 24-07-2022 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Edited book

Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Rosa, Frederico Delgado; Vermeulen, Han F., Vermeulen, Han F.. Berghahn. New York, United States. 2022. Published

Journal article

Exhuming the ancestors: A Reassessment of Fabian's Critique of Allochronism

Frederico Rosa, Critique of Anthropology. 458 - 477. 4. 39. 2019. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/63347631-b338-476a-82fd-5d1479163637 . 10.1177/0308275X18821172 . PublishedCritique of Anthropology

Book

Elsdon Best, l'ethnographe immémorial

Rosa, Frederico Delgado; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA NOVA FCSH), Lahic/DPRPS-Direction générale des patrimoines. France. 2018. Published


All Publications

Data updated on 19-03-2025 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Book chapter

“’Off with His Head!’ Wilhelm Mannhardt’s Wald- und Feldkulte at the Roots of The Golden Bough”

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough. Shaking the Tree, Braking the Bough. Stephanie Budin; Caroline J. Tully. Routledge. London, United Kingdom. 2025. Published

Book review

A New Precipice in Time: Maria Beatrice Di Brizio’s History of Tylorian Anthropology

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, 2023. https://histanthro.org/reviews/a-new-precipice-in-time/ . Published

Book chapter

Edward Tylor's Animism and Its Intellectual Aftermath

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, Animism and Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan. Switzerland. 2023. Published

Encyclopedia entry

Van Gennep and Virgin Birth: An Improbable Chapter in the History of Anthropology

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, BEROSE International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology. 1 - 35. BEROSE. France. 2022. article2563.html . Published

Edited book

Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Rosa, Frederico Delgado; Vermeulen, Han F., Vermeulen, Han F.. Berghahn. New York, United States. 2022. Published

Book chapter

Introduction. Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography

Rosa, Frederico Delgado; Vermeulen, Han F., Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. Berghahn. New York, United States. 2022. Published

Book chapter

O Totemismo esquecido: Uma página (in)fecunda da antropologia de Durkheim

Sobre o totemismo. Edusp. Brazil. 2022. Published

Book chapter

From Savages to Friends: Henrique de Carvalho and His Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890)

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. Berghahn. New York, United States. 2022. Published

Journal article

Caminhos para uma história inclusiva das antropologias do mundo

Matos, Patrícia Ferraz de; Dullo, Eduardo, Horizontes antropológicos. 7 - 45. 62. 2022. Published

Encyclopedia entry

Before and After Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology

Vermeulen, Han F.; Rosa, Frederico Delgado, BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. 1 - 75. France. 2022. https://www.berose.fr/article2707.html . Published

Book review

Maria Beatrice DI BRIZIO, Histoire du concept de couvade. Edward B. Tylor et l’ethnologie victorienne

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, Librairie Droz. 2022. http://journals.openedition.org/ress/8822 . Published

Book chapter

Indigenização enjeitada: dimensões antissincréticas da antropologia missionária em Timor-Leste, c. 1910-1974

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, Timor Etnográfico. Etnografias Coloniais Portuguesas no século XX. Roque, Ricardo. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. Lisboa, Portugal. 2022. Published

Journal article

Quem Perdeu a Cabeça? O Arquivo Etnográfico depois e além de Johannes Fabian

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, Revista BBM. 174 - 202. 4. 2022. Published

Book review

Historicizing Evolutionism: A Dialectical Review of Robert L. Carneiro (2003) and Efram Sera-Shriar (2018)

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, History of Anthropology Review. 2021. https://histanthro.org/reviews/historicizing-evolutionism/ . Published

Book chapter

Henrique de Carvalho et le tourbillon ethnographique de ses interlocuteurs africains

Frederico Rosa, Construire l’ethnologie en Afrique coloniale. Jean-Louis Georget; H{\'e. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle. 2020. Published

Book chapter

William Robertson Smith sacrifié: Promiscuité intellectuelle et métamorphose chez Durkheim

Frederico Rosa, Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse, cent ans après - Émile Durkheim et la religion. Matthieu B{\'e. Classiques Garnier. 2019. Published

Journal article

Exhuming the ancestors: A Reassessment of Fabian's Critique of Allochronism

Frederico Rosa, Critique of Anthropology. 458 - 477. 4. 39. 2019. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/63347631-b338-476a-82fd-5d1479163637 . 10.1177/0308275X18821172 . Published

Book review

Martin Thomas & Amanda Harris, Expeditionary Anthropology

Frederico Rosa, 03-04-2019. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/8403755a-fec0-4224-a05a-528c9339118c . Published

Book chapter

Totalitarian Critique: Johannes Fabian and the History of Primitive Anthropology

Frederico Rosa, Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories. Regna Darnell; Frederic Gleach. University of Nebraska Press. 2019. Published

Book chapter

James Mooney et le labyrinthe colonial de la Danse des Esprits

Frederico Rosa, Christine Lauri{\`e. BEROSE. France. 2019. Published

Book chapter

Catholic Luliks or Timorese Relics? Missionary Anthropology, Destruction and Self-destruction (c. 1910-1974)

Frederico Rosa, Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste. Ricardo Roque; Elizabeth Traube. Berghahn Books. 2019. Published

Book

Elsdon Best, l'ethnographe immémorial

Rosa, Frederico Delgado; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA NOVA FCSH), Lahic/DPRPS-Direction générale des patrimoines. France. 2018. Published

Book chapter

Lucina sine concubitu: ethnographie et théorie de l'immaculée conception chez Van Gennep

Frederico Rosa, Arnold Van Gennep. Du Folklore à l'ethnographie. Fabre, {Daniel . Editions du CTHS. Paris, France. 2018. Published

Encyclopedia entry

Avant Le Rameau d'Or : biographie de Wilhelm Mannhardt, précurseur oublié de James Frazer

Frederico Rosa, BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. 1 - 31. BEROSE. France. 2018. https://unl.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/87536880-a9c4-486e-8439-797bc080c452 . Published

Journal article

Transformations of the Sacred in East Timor

Bovensiepen, J.; Rosa, F.D., Comparative Studies in Society and History. 664 - 693. 3. 58. 2016. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84979268235&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1017/S0010417516000311 . Published

Book chapter

De l'ethnographie à l'intuition. Edward Tylor et l'universalité de l'animisme

Frederico Rosa, Trophées. Études ethnologiques, indigénistes et amazonistes offertes à Patrick Menget. Société d'ethnologie. Paris, France. 2016. Published

Book review

Do Pesadelo ao orgasmo: o segredo na história da antropologia

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, USP. 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/16971 . Published

Book review

Patrícia Ferraz de Matos, The Colours of the Empire

Frederico Rosa, 12-2015. https://puredev.unl.pt/portal/en/publications/the-colours-of-the-empire(ea83e5a4-5fb1-4a13-970b-21a545607bb1).html . Published

Journal article

Aux archives de l'animisme: Ethnographie et théorie de la «religion sauvage» chez Edward Tylor

Rosa, F.D., Mélanges de la Casa de Vélazquez. 219 - 240. 1. 45. 2015. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84939815173&partnerID=MN8TOARS . Published

Book chapter

Le totémisme hier: obsessions naïves d'un débat anthropologique

Frederico Rosa, 1913: La Recomposition de la science de l'Homme. Christine Lauri{\`e. BEROSE. France. 2015. Published

Book review

Ricardo Roque, Headhunting and Colonialism

Rosa,Frederico Delgado, 2012. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-65612012000300011 . Published

Book review

Filipe Verde, O Homem livre. Mito, moral e carácter numa sociedade ameríndia

Frederico Rosa, 01-01-2011. https://puredev.unl.pt/portal/en/publications/recensao-de-filipe-verde-o-homem-livre-mito-moral-e-carcter-numa-sociedade-amerindia(d24bb079-1fae-440b-91f0-49a57cbe929e).html . Published

Journal article

O fantasma de Evans-Pritchard: Diálogos da antropologia com a sua história

Rosa, F.D., Etnográfica. 337 - 360. 2. 15. 2011. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861915887&partnerID=MN8TOARS . Published

Book review

Henrika Kuklick, A New History of Antropology

Rosa,Frederico Delgado, 2009. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732009000300008 . Published

Journal article

Obituário: Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) O profeta da antropologia arcaica

Rosa,Frederico Delgado, Análise Social. 663 - 667. 193. 44. 2009. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732009000400001 . Published

Thesis / Dissertation

L'âge d'or du totémisme ou l'histoire d'un débat anthropologique

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, phd. 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/3944 .