'Het zal echt geen vacantiereisje zijn.' Scientific expeditions to Dutch New Guinea and the articulation of 'race' in the years 1935-1960.

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Beer, Liang de (2013)

'Het zal echt geen vacantiereisje zijn.' Scientific expeditions to Dutch New Guinea and the articulation of 'race' in the years 1935-1960.

Research master thesis | History: Societies and Institutions (research) (MA)

This thesis is about two scientific expeditions to Dutch New Guinea.The first to the Wisselmeren (1939)just before the Second World War, the second to the Sterrengebergte (1959) a few years before the transfer of Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia. These expeditions were organized by the Dutch Royal Geographic Society (Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap or KNAG). Many disciplines were involved: zoology, botany, geology, anthropology and many more specialisations. This research looks specifically at the interaction between the colonial state and the scientific expedition and the knowledge resulting from this relationship. Therefore it focuses on colonial anthropology and the changing notions of race and the 'other'.

dutch new guinea

expedition

colonialism

history of anthropology