Pacific Futures

Anderson, Warwick; Ballantyne, Tony; Ballard, Chris; Brookes, Barbara; Douglas, Bronwen; Hanlon, David; Johnson, Miranda; Jolly, Margaret; Manganaro, Christine; Matsuda, Matt K.; Steel, Frances; Stevens, Michael J.; Somerville, Alice Te Punga; Yu, Henry

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“…What are the connections, or contrasts, between new biological time frames and Pacific and other Indigenous and local historicities and temporalities? 28 Are new forms of subjectivity, identity, and biosociality articulated through these researches, among local peoples and among scientists? 29 How are biovalue and other forms of value negotiated, imposed, or contested?…”

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Pacific Biologies: How Humans Become Genetic

Anderson

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2020

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences

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The announcement in 2016 that Eske Willerslev's laboratory at the University of Cambridge had sequenced genomes of 83 Aboriginal Australians caused quite a stir, exciting discussion in newspapers, radio, television, and social media across the southern continent. Published in Nature, the article traced the ancient divergence of Aboriginal and Papuan (New Guinea Highlander) populations from Eurasians, and the slightly more recent splitting and isolation of the Australians from their Papuan neighbors. The investigatorsa multinational team, many of them Indigenous-deduced from these genomes that there had been a single colonization event, from which all Aboriginal Australians descended. Although they discerned subsequent European, Asian, and Melanesian genetic mixtures in samples, the nucleic-acid residues of such complicating ancestries could be set aside and discounted in the analysis. 1 One of the authors, Thomas Wales, an Aboriginal elder from Mapoon on Cape York, observed, "We have an oral history, that everyone knows, and you can lose all your oral [history]. Science, and DNA, and carbon dating . . . you can keep hold of things, tell us about our past." Many Indigenous people had come to regard genetics as confirming, or even

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Pacific Biologies: How Humans Become Genetic

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2020

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences

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Asmat Horizons of the Past

Timmer

2024

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

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Introduction — Imagined laboratories: Colonial and national racialisations in Island Southeast Asia

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Roque²

2018

J. Southeast Asian stud.

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The nature of human difference in Southeast Asia continues to excite scientific research and speculation, as it has for centuries. Only now scientists are more likely to describe humanity in the region in terms of population genetics than rigid racial typologies. They base their analyses on variations in nucleic acid arrays rather than skin colour, hair texture, morphology, blood groups, and languages. Their themes tend to diversity and shared connections, not the older absolutist styles of taxonomy, category, or breed. Their studies often are oriented toward the deep past, especially the prehistory of human origins and migrations, or toward contemporary biomedical opportunities, shifting away from research that might consolidate racial regimes useful in population management and state orders. Even so, nationalist talk of the 'Filipino genome' and the 'Indonesian genome' persists: recently a scientist has proposed, for example, that his 'genetic data resource will protect and empower the Filipino people'. 1 Generally, though, contemporary genetic research into human difference in Southeast Asia follows a dispersive logic, a complex patterning that no nation-state or region can contain, an intricate diffusion respecting no boundaries, not even Wallace's biogeographical line. It has become a project consistent with global imperatives. Thus the 'detailed palimpsest of Indonesian genetic diversity', according to recent investigators, 'is a direct outcome of the region's complex history of immigration, transitory migrants, and populations that have endured in situ since the region's first settlement'. 2 Scientists continue to tell us who we really are, or were, or even might bebut in new modes and with odd inflections. In this special issue of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS), we bring together articles that outline a critical historyan elucidative archaeologyof a century and more of such research into human difference in Island Southeast Asia, revealing This special issue brings together papers originally presented at the panel 'Colonial and National Racializations in Southeast Asia' as part of the 7th EuroSEAS meeting in Lisbon, in July 2013.

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Pacific Futures

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Pacific Biologies: How Humans Become Genetic

Pacific Biologies: How Humans Become Genetic

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Introduction — Imagined laboratories: Colonial and national racialisations in Island Southeast Asia

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