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Racial science and human diversity in colonial Indonesia, Fenneke Sysling
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- Summary
- 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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- eng
- Label
- Racial science and human diversity in colonial Indonesia
- Title
- Racial science and human diversity in colonial Indonesia
- Statement of responsibility
- Fenneke Sysling
- Subject
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- Colonies -- Research -- Indonesia
- Dutch -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
- Dutch -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
- Anthropologists -- Indonesia -- History
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 19th century
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Physical anthropology -- Indonesia -- History
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- Racial analysis -- Indonesia -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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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- 1981-
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- Sysling, Fenneke
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Colonies
- Physical anthropology
- Dutch
- Dutch
- Anthropologists
- Netherlands
- Netherlands
- Label
- Racial science and human diversity in colonial Indonesia, Fenneke Sysling
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-294) and index
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- volume
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn959698606
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9789814722070
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959698606
- Label
- Racial science and human diversity in colonial Indonesia, Fenneke Sysling
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-294) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn959698606
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9789814722070
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959698606
Subject
- Colonies -- Research -- Indonesia
- Dutch -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
- Dutch -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
- Anthropologists -- Indonesia -- History
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 19th century
- Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Physical anthropology -- Indonesia -- History
- Human remains (Archaeology) -- Racial analysis -- Indonesia -- History
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