Description
Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences offers a critical examination of how scientific knowledge production was intertwined with colonial expansion in the Americas and Pacific. Through essays by leading scholars, the volume reveals how anthropology, ethnography, medicine, and other human sciences emerged from and reinforced imperial projects.
The contributors analyze troubling encounters between European colonizers and indigenous peoples, demonstrating how scientific discourse was used to justify colonial domination and rationalize hierarchies of race and civilization. By examining archives, field notes, and institutional histories, the book uncovers the ethical complexities and power imbalances embedded in the history of the human sciences.
This interdisciplinary work challenges conventional narratives of scientific progress and offers new perspectives on how knowledge was created, contested, and resisted during periods of colonial rule.
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