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Knowing savagery: Humanity in the circuits of colonial knowledge
Griffith University, Australia.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. (Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9288-0954
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).

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Sage Publications, 2019. Vol. 32, no 4, p. 3-7
Keywords [en]
colonisation, Enlightenment, knowledge, race, savagery
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Humanities, History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-88775DOI: 10.1177/0952695119838190ISI: 000477344800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85069820010OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-88775DiVA, id: diva2:1346487
Available from: 2019-08-28 Created: 2019-08-28 Last updated: 2021-05-10Bibliographically approved

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