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Author Sysling, Fenneke, 1981- author.

Title Racial science and human diversity in colonial Indonesia / Fenneke Sysling
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
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Contents Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Maps & Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Bone Trajectories: Collecting Human Remains in Colonial Indonesia; Chapter 2 -- "The Fattest Lady at the Fair": Anthropological Measurements and the Colonial Government; Chapter 3 -- Eyes on Race: Photography and Plaster Casting as Knowledge-Making Practices; Chapter 4 -- Racial Borderlands: Anthropology in the Timor Archipelago; Chapter 5 -- The Archipelago of Racial Difference: J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan and Human Diversity
Chapter 6 -- "Nature's Boundless Multitude of Forms"? Hendrik Bijlmer and the Pygmy QuestionConclusions; Appendix: List of Organisations; Notes; Bibliography; Archives; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-294) and index
Notes In English
Subject Human remains (Archaeology) -- Racial analysis -- Indonesia -- History
Colonies -- Indonesia -- Research
Physical anthropology -- Indonesia -- History
Dutch -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
Dutch -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
Anthropologists -- Indonesia -- History
Anthropologists
Colonies -- Research
Dutch
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Racial analysis
Netherlandish colonies
Physical anthropology
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 19th century
Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
Netherlands -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Netherlands -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Subject Asia
Indonesia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016326136
ISBN 9789813250802
9813250801