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The Race Question in Oceania - A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865-1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Race Question in Oceania - A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch between metropolitan theory and field experience, 1865-1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Germanica Pacifica, 12
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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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