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By Bronwen Douglas
Mixing international scope with neighborhood intensity, this publication throws new mild on vital subject matters. Spanning 4 centuries and significant house, it combines the background of rules with specific histories of encounters among ecu voyagers and Indigenous humans in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).
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Such developmentalist or ‘stadial’ philosophies of human difference were systematized from the mid-18th century, parallel to and at times overlapping natural history’s nominalist catalogues of human varieties (see Chapter 3). Both stadial theory and natural history would be ideologically subsumed by the science of race. The 19th-century racial distinctions were novel not so much in nastiness – earlier discriminations could be vituperative – as in their reification of supposedly collective, hereditary physical differences within permanent racial hierarchies.
I contend rather that careful attention is needed to the located experience of encounters with persons and their actions that helped stimulate particular representations. Systematic critical investigation shows that voyagers’ representations are littered with traces of Indigenous agency but such traces are rarely unambiguous. They pertain to actions and contexts alien to foreign visitors and difficult for modern ethnohistorians to reconstruct. They were pre-processed in observers’ perceptions. And they were expressed in available vocabularies that took their meanings from a range of contemporary ideologies about what constituted humanness and civilized or savage behaviour.
If a race is a product of climate and milieu, rather than inherent organic properties, it is necessarily unstable and Introduction 13 impermanent, as the naturalist Buffon (1749, 1777) always insisted. However, in 1777 the philosopher Kant (1777:128–9) published a pathbreaking redefinition of Racen (‘races’) as a category of stable ‘hereditary differences’ between animals of a ‘single stock’. A race in this sense will consistently maintain itself when displaced to other areas. From the mid-1790s, the comparative anatomist Blumenbach (1797:23) popularized Kant’s (1785a:405–9) conception of a race and criterion of ‘unfailing heredity’ as the main ‘difference between races and varieties’.