<ul> <li> One of the first in-depth analyses of the Porto School of Anthropology and the work of its central figure &ndash; Mendes Correia &ndash; during the first half of the twentieth century.</li> <li> There is no single-authored book on this phase of anthropology in Portugal that takes into account aspects of the institutionalization of the discipline and its relations with the national colonial and international context.</li> <li> Mendes Correia is a notorious figure in anthropology for his racist eugenicist views.</li></ul>