Beschreibung
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.
Autorenportrait
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.
Inhalt
Contents: «This new and interesting world»: A.B. Meyer in New Guinea, 1873 – «It is not so!» Otto Finsch and physical diversity in Oceania, 1865-85 – «On one hundred and thirty-five Papuan skulls»: A.B. Meyer and contested craniology – «In no way savages»: Civilization and savagery in the writings of Otto Finsch.
