Enlightenment ethnography on the global periphery : The case of the duff missionary voyage to the South pacific, 1796-1798
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Irving-Stonebraker, Sarah Louise. (2020). Enlightenment ethnography on the global periphery : The case of the duff missionary voyage to the South pacific, 1796-1798. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 53(4), pp. 629-646. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0069
Authors | Irving-Stonebraker, Sarah Louise |
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Abstract | This article contributes to the recent scholarly efforts to take seriously the kinds of scientific work undertaken by missionaries to the South Pacific in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world. It explores the ethnographic and natural historical work undertaken by Captain Wilson and his missionaries on the Duff voyage to the South Pacific in the 1790s. It argues that not only was Wilson practicing science in the form of ethnography and natural history, but that his theology was, in fact, central to his scientific work. Wilson put the theological concept of idolatry to new ethnographic use on the colonial periphery, against the backdrop of the increasingly global exchange of people, goods, and ideas. |
Keywords | dance; masquerade; literature; film; German; Holy Roman Empire; Württemberg; court entertainment; Jewish Studies; adaptation |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Eighteenth-Century Studies |
Journal citation | 53 (4), pp. 629-646 |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
ISSN | 0013-2586 |
1086-315X | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2020.0069 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85092284691 |
Page range | 629-646 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 06 Aug 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Jul 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8z551/enlightenment-ethnography-on-the-global-periphery-the-case-of-the-duff-missionary-voyage-to-the-south-pacific-1796-1798
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