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Foreign Bodies

Year

2008

Publisher

ANU Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Social Science

Language

English

Pages

372

ISBN

978-1-92153-600-7

Link

Last Update

09-Sep-2024

Keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

Description

From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonizers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional, intellectual, religious, and practical dimensions. The argument developed is subtle, engrossing, and gives the paradigm of 'race' its full use value. Foreign Bodies is a model of analysis and erudition from which historians of science and everyone interested in intercultural relations will greatly profit.

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