{"product_id":"health-and-difference-rendering-human-variation-in-colonial-engagements-9781785332715","title":"Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHuman variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists’ and administrators’ interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The chapters each offer a clearly delimited case study, most taking a narrow timeframe (a decade or two, six at most) and geographical focus. This allows them to illustrate how very specific sets of concerns shaped how distinctions were generated, and acted on, by scientific and administrative practices.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This volume contributes valuably to literature by showing how medical knowledge practices both shaped, and were shaped by, categories and images of social, cultural, sexual,and biological difference, and ‘racial difference’.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Ricardo Roque\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Lisbon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eHealth and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVeronika Lipphardt and Alexandra Widmer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and Giemsa’s Expedition to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndré Felipe Cândido da Silva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Ill-suited’ Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and Labour under Company Administration, 1888–1914\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAntje Kühnast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in the New Hebrides, 1925–1945\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJean Mitchell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Medical Missions – Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Ehlers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa, 1900s–1960s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJean-Paul Bado\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932–1950\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Letícia Galluzzi Bizzo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of Malnutrition in Niger\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarbara M. Cooper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSamuël Coghe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHans Pols\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword:\u003c\/strong\u003e Following Racial Paper Trails\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWarwick Anderson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042385166679,"sku":"9781785332715","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785332715.jpg?v=1750954001","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/health-and-difference-rendering-human-variation-in-colonial-engagements-9781785332715","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}