Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements (Rethinking Biosocial Anthropology, 8)

ISBN 10: 1785332716 ISBN 13: 9781785332715

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2016

Synopsis

Human 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.

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About the Authors

Alexandra Widmer is an anthropologist who teaches at York University in Toronto. Situating the Pacific islands in a global context, her work focuses on colonial and post colonial dimensions of biomedicine, population thinking, reproduction and care.

Veronika Lipphardt is Professor for Science and Technology Studies at the Freiburg University. She works on the history of the life sciences, particularly physical anthropology and human population genetics in their political, social and cultural contexts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785332716
• ISBN 13: 9781785332715
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Widmer Alexandra, Lipphardt Veronika