The Race Question in Oceania
A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865-1914
(Sprache: Englisch)
This richly interdisciplinary book explores the transformative impacts of personal encounters in Oceania on German understandings of human difference. Through detailed analyses of the works of A.B. Meyer and Otto Finsch, it illuminates the difficult...
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Gebunden)
Fr. 99.90
inkl. MwSt.
- Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnungskauf
- 30 Tage Widerrufsrecht
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „The Race Question in Oceania “
This richly interdisciplinary book explores the transformative impacts of personal encounters in Oceania on German understandings of human difference. Through detailed analyses of the works of A.B. Meyer and Otto Finsch, it illuminates the difficult relationship between field experience and metropolitan science in late nineteenth-century Europe.
Klappentext zu „The Race Question in Oceania “
In 1873 the German naturalist A.B. Meyer spent five months in New Guinea. He had expected "bloodthirsty and untamed savages" and was amazed to find "men of milder customs". His compatriot Otto Finsch returned from a voyage through Hawaii, Micronesia, New Zealand and Torres Strait declaring Germany's most respected anthropologists wrong. Human races could not be neatly distinguished: they "merge into one another to such an extent that the difference between Europeans and Papuans becomes completely unimportant". This richly interdisciplinary book explores the transformative impacts of personal encounters in Oceania on understandings of human difference, and illuminates the difficult relationship between field experience and metropolitan science in late nineteenth-century Europe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Race Question in Oceania “
Contents: «This new and interesting world»: A.B. Meyer in New Guinea, 1873 - «It is not so!» Otto Finsch and physical diversity in Oceania, 1865-85 - «On one hundred and thirty-five Papuan skulls»: A.B. Meyer and contested craniology - «In no way savages»: Civilization and savagery in the writings of Otto Finsch.
Autoren-Porträt von Hilary Howes
Hilary Susan Howes completed her PhD in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. She has published and taught on environmental history, history of science and Pacific history at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Hilary Howes
- 2013, Neuausgabe, XIV, 344 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Masse: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3631638744
- ISBN-13: 9783631638743
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Kommentar zu "The Race Question in Oceania"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „The Race Question in Oceania“
| Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
|---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The Race Question in Oceania".
Kommentar verfassen