Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940, edited by historians Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard, ANU E Press, 2008, is a peer reviewed academic collection examining how European racial science divided the Pacific into Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. Its strength is that direct scholarly interrogation of categories still in everyday use. Its limit is that, as an edited volume, individual chapters vary by contributor; check the specific chapter behind any claim drawn from it for that author's own evidence.
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Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard's edited collection Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940, ANU E Press, 2008, the top tier reflecting a peer reviewed academic collection examining how European racial science divided the Pacific into Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. Its limit is that, as an edited volume, individual chapters vary by contributor; check the specific chapter behind any claim drawn from it for that author's own evidence. NotesOn how the Pacific was divided into Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, and on the racial science the divisions were drawn from.
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AuthorBronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard (eds.)
PublisherANU E Press
Publication Year2008
Source TypeEdited volume
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Culture Groups, 2 claims: 2 general references.
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