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

By Douglas , Chris , Bronwen(eds);Ballard

Book information

Publisher
ANU E Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9781921313998, 9781921536007, 1921313994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7459665 bytes)
Pages
XX, 352 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm\372
Time added
2020-11-29 04:09:57

Description

From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonizers 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

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