Foreign bodies : Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940 / editors, Bronwen Douglas, Chris Ballard.
"The collection investigates the reciprocal significance of Oceania for the science of race, and of racial thinking for Oceania, during the two centuries after 1750, giving 'Oceania' a broad definition that encompasses the Pacific Islands, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and the M...
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Canberra, A.C.T. :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Emergence : thinking the science of race, 1750-1880. Climate to crania : science and the racialization of human difference / Bronwen Douglas
- Experience : the science of race and Oceania, 1750-1869. 'Novus orbis australis' : Oceania in the science of race, 1750-1850 / Bronwen Douglas ; 'Oceanic negroes' : British anthropology of Papuans, 1820-1869 / Chris Ballard
- Consolidation : the science of race and aboriginal Australians, 1860-1885. British anthropological thought in colonial practice : the appropriation of indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880 / Paul Turnbull ; 'Three living Australians' and the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1885 / Stephanie Anderson
- Complicity and challenge : the science of race and evangelical humanism, 1880-1930. The 'faculty of faith' : evangelical missionaries, social anthropologists, and the claim for human unity in the 19th century / Helen Gardner ; 'White man's burden', 'white man's privilege' : Christian humanism and racial determinism in Oceania, 1890-1930 / Christine Weir
- Zenith : colonial contradictions and the chimera of racial purity, 1920-1940. The half-caste in Australia, New Zealand, and western Samoa between the wars : different problem, different places? / Vicki Luker
- Epilogue. The cultivation of difference in Oceania / Chris Ballard.