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The Race Question in Oceania

其他書名	A. B. Meyer and Otto Finsch Between Metropolitan Theory and Field Experience, 1865-1914
出版	Lang-Ed., 2013
主題	History / GeneralHistory / Europe / GermanyHistory / HistoriographyHistory / Modern / GeneralPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	36530339269783653033922
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9gZ0zwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋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.