Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth-Century British World

帝国解剖：二十世纪英国世界的种族、进化和科学网络

• 批准号: DP0985845
• 负责人: Prof Warwick Anderson
• 金额: $ 22.15万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-01-21 至 2013-01-21
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0985845
• 关键词: Anatomies; Empire; Race; Evolution; Scientific

Our research demonstrates how Australian scientists, Australian field experiences, and Australian materials were central to comparative anatomy, evolutionary theory and race science in the twentieth century. This study uncovers for the first time the powerful imperial network of racial biologists and physical anthropologists whose influential studies of human nature and racial classification derived from Australian work. These ideas about what it means to be human, hitherto unexamined historically, continue to underpin our contemporary assumptions about ethnic difference, Aboriginal status, multiculturalism, and national identity.

我们的研究展示了澳大利亚科学家，澳大利亚实地经验和澳大利亚材料是如何在二十世纪成为比较解剖学，进化理论和种族科学的核心。这项研究首次揭示了强大的种族生物学家和体质人类学家的帝国网络，他们对人性和种族分类的影响力研究来自澳大利亚的工作。这些关于人类意义的观念，迄今为止尚未经过历史的检验，继续支撑着我们当代关于种族差异、土著地位、多元文化主义和民族认同的假设。