Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850
(Sprache: Englisch)
Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in...
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Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).
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Introduction: Indigenous Presence to the Science of Race PART I: 'INDIANS', 'NEGROES', AND 'SAVAGES' IN TERRA AUSTRALIS 1. Before Races: Barbarity, Civility, and Salvation in the Mar del Sur 2. Towards Races: Ambivalent Encounters in the South Seas 3. Seeing Races: Confronting 'Savages' in Terra Australis PART II: RACE, CLASSIFICATION, AND ENCOUNTERS IN OCÉANIE 4. Meeting Agency: Islanders, Voyagers, and Races in the Mer du Sud 5. Races in the Field: Encounters and Taxonomy in the Grand Océan 6. Raciology in Action: Phrenology, Polygenism, and Agency in Océanie Conclusion: Race in 1850/Oceania in 1850
Autoren-Porträt von Bronwen Douglas
Bronwen Douglas was Senior Fellow at The Australian National University for 16 years and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in retirement. An historian of the interplay of ideas of human difference or race and practical encounters in Oceania, she is author of Across the Great Divide (1998) and co-editor with Chris Ballard of Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940 (2008).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bronwen Douglas
- 2014, 1st ed., 361 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1349454966
- ISBN-13: 9781349454969
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Englisch
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