Georges cuvier: Founder of modem biology (Foucault), or scientific racist (Cultural Studies)?

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Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-190

  Kistner, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 33750255878     PISSN: 10631801     EISSN: 10806520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/con.1999.0015     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (London: Tavistock, 1986), pp. 137-138 (parenthetical page numbers in the text will refer to this work).
2. Georges Cuvier, Geschichte der Fortschritte in den Naturwissenschaften seit 1789 bis auf den heutigen Tag, trans. F. A. Wiese (Leipzig: Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1928), p. 4.
3. See William Coleman, Georges Cuvier, Zoologist: A Study in the History of Evolution Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964), p. 80.
4. Cuvier, quoted in Coleman, Georges Cuvier, p. 143.
5. See Georges Cuvier and C. Duméril, "Rapport sur un mémoire de M. Roulin, ayant pour objet la découverte d'une nouvelle espèce de tapir dans l'Amérique du sud, fait à l'Académie royale des sciences (13 April 1829)," Annales des sciences naturelles 17 (1829): 109-110.
6. Coleman, Georges Ctivier (above, n. 3), p. 150.
7. Georges Cuvier and A. Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons (Paris, 1828), vol. 1, pp. 568-569; quoted in Coleman, Georges Cuvier, pp. 147-148.
8. Michel Foucault, Cuvier's Position in the History of Biology," Critique ofAntliropology 4:13/14 (1979): 128.
9. Ibid., p. 129.
10. Coleman, Georges Cuvier (above, n. 3), pp. 102, 106.
11. Saul Dubow, Scientific racism in modern South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 22.
12. Carmel Schrire, "Native Views of Western Eyes," in Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen, ed. Pippa Skotnes (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 1996), p. 350.
13. Saul Dubow, Scientific Racism, p. 22.
14. Robert Gordon, "The Venal Hottentot Venus and the great chain of Being." African Studies 51(2) (1992): 191.
15. Alan Morris, "Trophy Skulls, Museums and the San," in Skotnes, Miscast (above, n. 12), pp. 69-70.
16. John Baker, Race (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 316.
17. Morris, "Trophy Skulls," p. 70.
18. Schrire, "Native Views" (above, n. 12), p. 350.
19. Quoted in Léon Poliakov, TlieArian Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe, trans. Edmund Howard (London: Sussex University Press/Heinemann Educational Books, 1971), p. 220.
20. Baker, Race (above, n. 16), p. 316.
21. Sander Gilman, "Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature," Critical Inquiry 12 (1985): 216.
22. See Gordon, (above, n. 14).
23. See Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), trans. Victor Lyle Dowdell, ed. Frederick P. Van De Pitte (Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978).
24. Dubow, Scientific Racism (above, n. 13), p. 27.
25. See Joseph Agassi; quoted in Michael Banton, Race Relations (London: Tavistock, 1967), p. 19.
26. E.g., Gordon, (above, n. 14).
27. Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View" (1784), OH History, trans. and ed. Lewis White Beck (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merril Co. Inc., 1963), p. 25.
28. Ibid., p. 14.
29. Michael Banton, Racial Consciousness (London: Longman, 1988), p. 18.
30. Dubow, Scientific Racism (above, n. 13), p. 26.
31. Oilman, "Black Bodies" (above, n. 21), p. 226; see also p. 228.
32. Ibid., p. 237.
33. Ibid., p. 238.
34. See Skotness, Miscast, n. 12, pp. 68-69.
35. Schrire, Native Views" (above, n. 12), p. 347.
36. Michel Foucault, "On the Archaeology of the Sciences. Response to the Epistemology Circle," Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984, vol. II, ed. James D. Faubion, Trans. Robert Hurley et al. (New York: The New Press, 1998), p. 326.
37. Ibid.
38. Michel Foucault, "Two Lectures (1976)," Power/Knowledge. Selected Intervie\vs and Other Writings, 1972-1977, éd. Colin Gordon (Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1980), p. 84.
39. Michel Foucault, "On the Archaeology of the Sciences," p. 331.
40. See, e.g., H.P.A. Damerow, Elemente der nächsten Zukunft der Medizin (1829). See also Dietrich Georg Kieser, System der Mediän, zum Gebraticli bei akademischen Vorlesungen und für praktische Ärzte, 2 vols. (Halle: Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1817-19);
41. Karl Ernst von Baer, Über Enhvicklungsgescliichte der Tliiere: Beobachtung und Reflexion (Königsberg: Borntrager, 1828).
42. Michel Foucault, "Leben machen und sterben lassen. Die Geburt des Rassismus," in Bio-Macht, ed. Sebastian Reinfeldt and Richard Schwarz (Duisburg: Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung, 1992), p. 27.
43. Michel Foucault, Vom Licht des Krieges zur Geburt der Geschichte (1976; Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1986).