In Portugal, studies of transformations since the mid‐1950s in colonial social research have focused on the colonial school in Lisbon or other bodies directly under the supervision of the metropolitan administration. Nonmetropolitan initiatives have been neglected and the social‐scientific undertakings of the Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa (CEGP), in particular, have been only marginally dealt with. This article maps CEGP's creation in Bissau, in 1945, and its social‐scientific activity not only to establish its precedence but also to highlight local colonial enterprise and to specify its imprint upon developments in the metropole. It addresses CEGP's immediate context and main actors, institutional setting, research activities, publications, and other scientific outlets, to then put forward some concluding remarks regarding the epistemic reach of overseas governmental measures and the practical effects, in metropolitan colonial policies and scientific research, of peripheral imperial bureaucratic knowledge.

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社会科学、现代化和晚期殖民主义：The Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa。

在葡萄牙，自 1950 年代中期以来殖民社会研究的转变研究主要集中在里斯本的殖民学校或其他直接受大都会管理机构监督的机构。非大都市倡议被忽视，特别是葡萄牙几内亚研究中心 (CEGP) 的社会科学事业只得到了微不足道的处理。本文描绘了 CEGP 于 1945 年在比绍的创建及其社会科学活动，不仅确立了其优先地位，而且突出了当地的殖民企业，并明确了其对大都市发展的影响。它涉及 CEGP 的直接背景和主要参与者、机构设置、研究活动、出版物和其他科学渠道，