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Andersson Burnett, L. (2020). [Review of] Savages, Romans, and despots: thinking about others from Montaigne to Herderby Robert Launay, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 258 pp., $32.50, ISBN: -13:978-0-226-57539-1 [Review]. Intellectual History Review, 31(2), 375-377
Open this publication in new window or tab >>[Review of] Savages, Romans, and despots: thinking about others from Montaigne to Herderby Robert Launay, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, 258 pp., $32.50, ISBN: -13:978-0-226-57539-1
2020 (English)In: Intellectual History Review, ISSN 1749-6977, E-ISSN 1749-6985, Vol. 31, no 2, p. 375-377Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-127185 (URN)10.1080/17496977.2020.1736445 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-01-26 Created: 2024-01-26 Last updated: 2024-02-06Bibliographically approved
Höglund, J. & Andersson Burnett, L. (2019). Introduction: Nordic Colonialisms and Scandinavian Studies. Scandinavian Studies, 91(1-2), 1-12
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: Nordic Colonialisms and Scandinavian Studies
2019 (English)In: Scandinavian Studies, ISSN 0036-5637, E-ISSN 2163-8195, Vol. 91, no 1-2, p. 1-12Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 2019
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-87068 (URN)10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0001 (DOI)000475763500001 ()2-s2.0-85070675133 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-08-01 Created: 2019-08-01 Last updated: 2021-05-26Bibliographically approved
Buchan, B. & Andersson Burnett, L. (2019). Knowing Savagery: Australia and the Anatomy of Race. History of the Human Sciences, 32(4), 115-134
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Knowing Savagery: Australia and the Anatomy of Race
2019 (English)In: History of the Human Sciences, ISSN 0952-6951, E-ISSN 1461-720X, Vol. 32, no 4, p. 115-134Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

When Australia was circumnavigated by Europeans in 1801–02, French and British natural historians were unsure how to describe the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land they charted and catalogued. Ideas of race and of savagery were freely deployed by both British and French, but a discursive shift was underway. While the concept of savagery had long been understood to apply to categories of human populations deemed to be in want of more historically advanced ‘civilisation’, the application of this term in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was increasingly being correlated with the emerging terminology of racial characteristics. The terminology of race was still remarkably fluid, and did not always imply fixed physical or mental endowments or racial hierarchies. Nonetheless, by means of this concept, natural historians began to conceptualise humanity as subject not only to historical gradations, but also to the environmental and climatic variations thought to determine race. This in turn meant that the degree of savagery or civilisation of different peoples could be understood through new criteria that enabled physical classification, in particular by reference to skin colour, hair, facial characteristics, skull morphology, or physical stature: the archetypal criteria of race. While race did not replace the language of savagery, in the early years of the 19th century savagery was re-inscribed by race.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019
Keywords
humanity, natural history, race, savagery, Scottish Enlightenment
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82051 (URN)10.1177/0952695119836587 (DOI)000479415900001 ()2-s2.0-85070270687 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-04-25 Created: 2019-04-25 Last updated: 2020-12-14Bibliographically approved
Buchan, B. & Andersson Burnett, L. (2019). Knowing savagery: Humanity in the circuits of colonial knowledge. History of the Human Sciences, 32(4), 3-7
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Knowing savagery: Humanity in the circuits of colonial knowledge
2019 (English)In: History of the Human Sciences, ISSN 0952-6951, E-ISSN 1461-720X, Vol. 32, no 4, p. 3-7Article in journal, Editorial material (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

How was 'savagery' constituted as a field of colonial knowledge? As Europe's empires expanded, their reach was marked not only by the colonisation of new territories but by the colonisation of knowledge. Path-breaking scholarship since the 1990s has shown how European knowledge of colonised territories and peoples developed from diverse travel writings, missionary texts, and exploration narratives from the 16th century onwards (Abulafia, 2008; Armitage, 2000; De Campos Francozo, 2017; Pratt, 1992). Of prime importance in this work has been the investigation of the pre-positioning of colonised peoples within categories derived from European traditions of historical, religious, legal, and political thought as either 'savages' or 'barbarians' (Richardson, 2018; Sebastiani, 2013).

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019
Keywords
colonisation, Enlightenment, knowledge, race, savagery
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-88775 (URN)10.1177/0952695119838190 (DOI)000477344800001 ()2-s2.0-85069820010 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-08-28 Created: 2019-08-28 Last updated: 2021-05-10Bibliographically approved
Andersson Burnett, L. & Buchan, B. (Eds.). (2019). Knowing Savagery: Special Issue of History of the Human Sciences 32:4 (32:4ed.). London: Sage Publications
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Knowing Savagery: Special Issue of History of the Human Sciences 32:4
2019 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Sage Publications, 2019. p. 3-7 Edition: 32:4
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History; Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82233 (URN)
Note

Editor of journal special issue

Available from: 2019-04-26 Created: 2019-04-26 Last updated: 2023-02-01Bibliographically approved
Höglund, J. & Andersson Burnett, L. (Eds.). (2019). Nordic Colonialisms: Special Issue for Scandinavian Studies. University of Illinois Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Nordic Colonialisms: Special Issue for Scandinavian Studies
2019 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Illinois Press, 2019
Series
Scandinavian Studies, ISSN 0036-5637, E-ISSN 2163-8195 ; 91:1 and 91:2
National Category
Cultural Studies
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82234 (URN)
Note

Editor of special issue

Available from: 2019-04-26 Created: 2019-04-26 Last updated: 2023-04-13Bibliographically approved
Andersson Burnett, L. (2019). Translating Swedish colonialism: Johannes Schefferus’s Lapponia in Britain c. 1674-1800. Scandinavian Studies, 91(1-2), 134-162
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Translating Swedish colonialism: Johannes Schefferus’s Lapponia in Britain c. 1674-1800
2019 (English)In: Scandinavian Studies, ISSN 0036-5637, E-ISSN 2163-8195, Vol. 91, no 1-2, p. 134-162Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2019
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, Cultural Sociology; Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82050 (URN)10.5406/scanstud.91.1-2.0134 (DOI)000475763500007 ()2-s2.0-85070692700 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-04-18 Created: 2019-04-18 Last updated: 2021-05-10Bibliographically approved
Andersson Burnett, L. (2018). Carl Linnaeus’s expedition to Sápmi in 1732. Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science (115), 13-14
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Carl Linnaeus’s expedition to Sápmi in 1732
2018 (English)In: Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science, ISSN 1751-8261, no 115, p. 13-14Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: The British Society for the History of Science, 2018
National Category
History
Research subject
Humanities, History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79047 (URN)
Available from: 2018-12-03 Created: 2018-12-03 Last updated: 2019-06-25Bibliographically approved
Andersson Burnett, L. & Buchan, B. (2018). The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of enlightenment thought (1ed.). In: Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme (Ed.), Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge: (pp. 161-186). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of enlightenment thought
2018 (English)In: Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge / [ed] Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane Van Damme, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2018, 1, p. 161-186Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2018 Edition: 1
Series
Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, ISSN 0435-2866 ; 2018:01
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-73089 (URN)9780729412056 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-04-19 Created: 2018-04-19 Last updated: 2021-05-10Bibliographically approved
Andersson Burnett, L. (2017). The ‘Lapland Giantess’ in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition. In: Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren, Gunlög Fur (Ed.), Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds: Toward Revised Histories (pp. 123-143). Brill Academic Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The ‘Lapland Giantess’ in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition
2017 (English)In: Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds: Toward Revised Histories / [ed] Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren, Gunlög Fur, Brill Academic Publishers, 2017, p. 123-143Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Brill Academic Publishers, 2017
Series
Cross/Cultures: Readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, ISSN 0924-1426 ; 200
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-69183 (URN)10.1163/9789004347601_007 (DOI)2-s2.0-85164720579 (Scopus ID)978-90-04-34704-5 (ISBN)978-90-04-34760-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-12-12 Created: 2017-12-12 Last updated: 2023-08-25Bibliographically approved
Projects
Collecting Humanity: Prehistory, Race and Instructions for Scientific Travel, c. 1750-1850 [2019-03358_VR]; Uppsala University
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