Part Two – Experience: the Science of Race and Oceania, 1750-1869

Table of Contents

Chapter 2. 'Novus Orbis Australis': Oceania in the science of race, 1750-1850

Buffon and Dampier — 'great variety of Savages'

Brosses and the Forsters — 'two great varieties'

Blumenbach — 'this remarkable variety'

Collecting races

Towards autochthony

Naval naturalists and racial taxonomy in Oceania

Morality, science, and the lure of polygeny

Prichard — 'one original'; 'three principal groupes'

Conclusion

References

Chapter 3. 'Oceanic Negroes': British anthropology of Papuans, 1820-1869

'Papuanesia'

John Crawfurd — 'two separate races'

George Windsor Earl — 'a single glance is sufficient'

Alfred Russel Wallace — 'Had I been blind …'

The priority of presence

The cardinality of comparison

Topography of purity: admixture, commixture, intermixture

On coming out strong

References