The Mestizos of Kisar: an Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago

Hans Pols; Warwick Anderson

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Page Range:: 225–253

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004542983_009

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In the 1920s and 1930s, the mestizos of Kisar, a dry, almost barren island in the Dutch East Indies off the coast of East Timor, were a model for the study of race mixing or human hybridity. Discovered in the late-nineteenth century, these “anomalous blondes” of Dutch and Kisarese ancestry became subjects of intense scrutiny by physical anthropologists. As a German specialist in tropical medicine in search of a convenient empire after 1918, Ernst Rodenwaldt favourably evaluated the physique and mentality of the isolated, fair mestizos in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Back in Germany in the 1930s, as professor of hygiene at Heidelberg, his views on race hardened to accord with Nazi doctrine. Yet after the war, Rodenwaldt successfully cited his earlier appreciation of mixed-race peoples in the eastern Malay Archipelago as grounds for rehabilitation. Once a celebrated case study in human hybridity, the mestizos of Kisar were erased from anthropological discussion in the 1950s, when race mixing ceased to be a biological issue and became instead a sociological interest. Still, Rodenwaldt’s work continues to exert some limited influence in the eastern parts of the archipelago and among the Kisarese diaspora, indicating the resilience of colonial racialisation projects.

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Imagined Racial Laboratories

Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia

丛编： Brill's Southeast Asian Library, 卷： 10

ISBN:: 9789004542983

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 23 Mar 2023

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