Article ID: CBB254586561

Philosophers, Naturalists, and Antipodean Encounters, 1748-1803 (2013)

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This article addresses a complex nexus of discourse and praxis: varying Enlightenment visions of Man; emergent ideas about human differences; and encounters between European scientific voyagers and Indigenous people in New Holland (Australia) and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) at the start of the nineteenth century. Discursively, I trace two strands of ‘anthropological’ thinking. One, philosophical and economic, is epitomized in French and Scottish stadial theory. The other is naturalist and culminated in Buffon's natural history of man. Both were appropriated from the late eighteenth century by a nascent science of race. With respect to praxis, I chart the reciprocal impact of metropolitan theory, antipodean experience and local agency by selective comparison of materials produced by the voyages of Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin in Australian waters in 1801–1803.

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Authors & Contributors
West-Sooby, John
Moore, D. T.
Fornasiero, Jean
John Hemming
Bastian, Josephine
Matthew Fishburn
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Naturalists
Scientific expeditions
Anthropology
Natural history
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Australia
France
Great Britain
Polynesia
New Guinea
Amazon River Region (South America)
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