1. ESCRITO EN LA SANGRE. DE LA POLICÍA CIENTÍFICA A LA ANTROPOLOGÍA. LUIS SANDOVAL SMART EN EL ESCENARIO CIENTÍFICO CHILENO (1930-1960).
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Palacios Laval, Cristián and Sánchez Delgado, Marcelo
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BLOOD groups , *PHYSICAL anthropology , *WORK sharing , *TECHNICAL writing , *FORENSIC sciences , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *FORENSIC anthropology - Abstract
In the mid 1930’s, Dr. Luis Sandoval Smart joined the “Dirección de Investigaciones, Identificación y Pasaportes” of Chile as a biochemist physician, and from this position he started several lines of research about blood types and their properties, which put him on the cutting edge of these studies on a Latin American level, which derived in a career on university physical anthropology. It is notable that through Sandoval Smart’s figure the police laboratory created in 1935 went ahead of the curve on the areas of forensic hematology and seroanthropology. On the other hand, Sandoval Smart’s scientific writings reintroduce a layer of racism to criminalistics and anthropology. Finally, it is worthy of notice that Sandoval Smart is a relatively ignored figure on the disciplinary memory of chilean anthropology, situation about which this work shares some thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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