SEARCHING FOR THE MISSING LINK Prehistory, Ethnology, and Racial Discourse

“Prehistory,” “evolutionary theory,” and “the typology of races” were first introduced by European and American scientists who were hired to guide the young men of Japan in catching up with Western science and medicine (Oguma 1995, 3–42). The German doctor Phillip Franze von Siebold (1796–1866) and...

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Published inHeritage Management in Korea and Japan p. 95
Main Author Pai, Hyung Il
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Washington Press 01.01.2014
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
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Summary:“Prehistory,” “evolutionary theory,” and “the typology of races” were first introduced by European and American scientists who were hired to guide the young men of Japan in catching up with Western science and medicine (Oguma 1995, 3–42). The German doctor Phillip Franze von Siebold (1796–1866) and his son Heinrich (1852–1908), William Gowland (1843–1922), an English chemist who served as a consultant to the Mint (1872–88), and John Milne (1850–1913), an English seismologist and professor of Geology at Tokyo University (1876–94) were scholars who pioneered the fields of ethnography, archaeology, and racial sciences (Saitō
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