The Race Question in Oceania : A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865–1914
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by
Hilary Howes
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Germanica Pacifica
ISBN-10
3631638744
ISBN-13
9783631638743
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 30th, 2013
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
566 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 21.70 x 2.80 cms
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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.
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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