Título: Geographies of Difference: Dutch Physical Anthropology in the Colonies and the Netherlands, ca. 1900-1940
Autores: Sysling, Fenneke; Royal Netherlands Historical Society (editorial secretary)
Fecha: 2013-03-19
Publicador: BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
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Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Tema: Imperial History
Descripción: This article analyses how physical anthropologists created scientific circuitsbetween the Netherlands and their colonies in the East Indies. It shows that national and imperial anthropology were not two separate spheres and that the movement of anthropologists and their objects was important both for the making of anthropology as a scientific discipline and for making anthropological ideas. Trying to define the physical features of people in Dutch fishing villages and in East Indies inland regions, anthropologists formed geographies of imaginary difference. Anthropological data from the Indies however was valued more highly than that from the Netherlands, which means that distance continued to matter. New Imperial Historians would therefore do better to sharpen their perception of these uneven geographies.
Idioma: Inglés