Hilary Howes

The Race Question in Oceania

A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865¿1914. 'Germanica Pacifica'. HC runder Rücken kaschiert. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 360 Seiten

ISBN 3631638744

EAN 9783631638743

Veröffentlicht Oktober 2013

Verlag/Hersteller Peter Lang

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Beschreibung

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.

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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.