Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Douglas, Bronwen (auth)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ballard, Chris (auth)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου
• Γλώσσα: Αγγλικά
• Έκδοση: Canberra ANU Press 2008
• Θέματα: Ethnic studies; ethnic relations; oceania; race; Anthropology; Indigenous people of New Guinea
• Διαθέσιμο Online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Περίληψη

From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional, intellectual, religious, and practical dimensions. The argument developed is subtle, engrossing, and gives the paradigm of 'race' its full use value. Foreign Bodies is a model of analysis and erudition from which historians of science and everyone interested in intercultural relations will greatly profit. Claude Blanckaert, CNRS (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Paris, and Honorary President, French Society for the History of the Science of Man

Φυσική περιγραφή

1 electronic resource (352 p.)

ISBN

OAPEN_459239

Πρόσβαση

Open Access