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1 online resource |
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data file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"The collection investigates the reciprocal significance of Oceania for the science of race, and of racial thinking for Oceania, during the two centuries after 1750, giving 'Oceania' a broad definition that encompasses the Pacific Islands, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago. We aim to denaturalize the modernist scientific concept of race by means of a dual historical strategy: tracking the emergence of the concept in western Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, its subsequent normalization, and its practical deployment in Oceanic contexts; and exposing the tensions, inconsistencies, and instability of rival discourses. Under the broad rubrics of dereifying race and decentring Europe, these essays make several distinctive and innovative contributions. First, they locate the formulation of particular racial theories and the science of race generally at the intersections of metropolitan biology or anthropology and encounters in the field a relatively recent strategy in the history of ideas. We neither dematerialize ideas as purely abstract and discursive nor reduce them to social relations and politics, but ground them personally and circumstantially in embodied human interactions."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Foreign bodies in Oceania / Bronwen Douglas -- Part 1. Emergence : thinking the science of race, 1750-1880. Climate to crania : science and the racialization of human difference / Bronwen Douglas -- Part 2. Experience : the science of race and Oceania, 1750-1869. 'Novus orbis australis' : Oceania in the science of race, 1750-1850 / Bronwen Douglas ; 'Oceanic negroes' : British anthropology of Papuans, 1820-1869 / Chris Ballard -- Part 3. Consolidation : the science of race and aboriginal Australians, 1860-1885. British anthropological thought in colonial practice : the appropriation of indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880 / Paul Turnbull ; 'Three living Australians' and the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1885 / Stephanie Anderson -- Part 4. Complicity and challenge : the science of race and evangelical humanism, 1880-1930. The 'faculty of faith' : evangelical missionaries, social anthropologists, and the claim for human unity in the 19th century / Helen Gardner ; 'White man's burden', 'white man's privilege' : Christian humanism and racial determinism in Oceania, 1890-1930 / Christine Weir -- Part 5. Zenith : colonial contradictions and the chimera of racial purity, 1920-1940. Half-caste in Australia, New Zealand, and western Samoa between the wars : different problem, different places? / Vicki Luker -- Epilogue. Cultivation of difference in Oceania / Chris Ballard. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Race -- Social aspects.
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Race -- Social aspects. |
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Race. |
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Oceania -- Race relations.
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Oceania. |
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Race relations. |
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Oceania Region. |
| Indexed Term |
Ethnic relations |
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Oceania |
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Race |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Douglas, Bronwen.
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Ballard, Chris, 1963-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Foreign bodies. Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2008 (DLC) 2009459186 (OCoLC)271671442 |
| ISBN |
9781921536007 (electronic book) |
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1921536004 (electronic book) |
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9781921313998 (paperback) |
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1921313994 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.26530/OAPEN_459239 |
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