Výzkumný seminář: Anna Echterhölter: Pacific Data Journeys. The Enquete Tradition and Patterns of Justification in German Colonial Statistics

Anna Echterhölter (Universität Wien)

The presentation investigates early examples of colonial statistics, number collection, and surveys on topics like health, conditions of slavery, or indigenous law in the German Pacific. It will concentrate on two stages of this data journey (Leonelli). The moment of data collection at the doorstep and the moment, when the categories for the inquiry are decided upon because both instances are moments of profound misunderstanding and concealment.