Speaker: ORCID

Abstract: »Imperial anthropology was an inherently gendered enterprise, concerned with the structure of gender in the societies it studied and conducted from the implicitly male, White perspective of the researcher-explorer. One aspect of this gendered character that has received little scholarly attention, however, is the way in which imperial anthropology was also defined by sexuality and sexual violence. Therefore, my presentation will focus on the intersection of race, gender, and ethnographic practice to argue for the intimate connection between the collection of ethnographic artefacts, the sexualisation of women of colour, and the functioning of empire.« (Source: International Research Network “Military, War and Gender/Diversity / Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht/Diversität”)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Germany / German Empire | Academic discipline: Ethnology / Wilhelm Joest | Sex and the law: Sexual violence