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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) Loot Price: R2,756
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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)

Hilary Howes

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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Imprint: Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Germanica Pacifica, 12
Release date: October 2013
First published: 2014
Authors: Hilary Howes
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-3-631-63874-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 3-631-63874-4
Barcode: 9783631638743

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