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Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia

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Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices. The way such matters are understood is partly rooted in ideas developed by racial scientists working in the Netherlands Indies beginning in the late nineteenth century, who tried to develop systematic ways to define and identify distinctive races. Their work helped spread the idea that race had a scientific basis in anthropometry and craniology, and was central to people’s identity, but their encounters in the archipelago also challenged their ideas about race.

In this new monograph, Fenneke Sysling draws on published works and private papers to describe the way Dutch racial scientists tried to make sense of the human diversity in the Indonesian archipelago. The making of racial knowledge, it contends, cannot be explained solely in terms of internal European intellectual developments. It was ‘on the ground’ that ideas about race were made and unmade with a set of knowledge strategies that did not always combine well. Sysling describes how skulls were assembled through the colonial infrastructure, how measuring sessions were resisted, what role photography and plaster casting played in racial science and shows how these aspects of science in practice were entangled with the Dutch colonial Empire.

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Ketersediaan

B02075

B-Pendidikan & Kemanusiaan RA FE

Tersedia

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

B-Pendidikan & Kemanusiaan RA FE

Penerbit

Singapore : Nus Press Singapore., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

305 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789814722070

Klasifikasi

B-Pendidikan & Kemanusiaan

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Cetakan 1, 2016

Subjek

Buku Pendidikan & Kemanusiaan

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Fenneke Sysling

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