l’Anthropologie Criminelle
Browsing through BoingBoing today I noticed a reference to the Archives d’Anthropologie Criminelle. Looking around I discovered that the entire contents of the journal l’Anthropologie Criminelle from 1886 to 1914 have been scanned and made available online. Here is a direct link to the archives.
My French isn’t very good, but I have an interest in this topic as part of the pre-history for British colonial ethnography in South Asia. If you know anything about this journal, or its founder, Alexandre Lacassagne, please share in the comments.
P. Kerim Friedman is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.
On Lacassagne, you might check John Tagg, The Burden of Representation. Essays on Photographies and Histories, and perhaps Allan Sekula, “The Body in the Archive” — I don’t Sekula at hand but I’m pretty certain that he also discusses the French school of criminology.
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Thanks Robert. I know the Sekula piece, but haven’t looked at it in a long time, and Tagg is new to me.
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