Main description:

Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists' and administrators' interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance.

Contents:

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements

Veronika Lipphardt and Alexandra Widmer

Chapter 1. Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and Giemsa's Expedition to Espirito Santo, Brazil in 1936

Andre Felipe Candido da Silva

Chapter 2. 'Ill-suited' Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and Labour under Company Administration, 1888-1914

Antje Kuhnast

Chapter 3. The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in the New Hebrides, 1925-1945

Jean Mitchell

Chapter 4. Medical Missions - Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century

Sarah Ehlers

Chapter 5. Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa, 1900s-1960s

Jean-Paul Bado

Chapter 6. Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932-1950

Maria Leticia Galluzzi Bizzo

Chapter 7. The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of Malnutrition in Niger

Barbara M. Cooper

Chapter 8. Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference

Samuel Coghe

Chapter 9. Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category

Hans Pols

Afterword: Following Racial Paper Trails

Warwick Anderson

Index