Shells and Order: Questionnaires on Indigenous Law in German New Guinea

Echterhölter, Anna

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“…The themed section opens with Nell Musgrove and Naomi Wolfe's “Aboriginal knowledge, the history classroom and the Australian university”, an exploration of competing knowledge structures at work in teaching Australian Indigenous history to undergraduate students. As such, it is one of the relatively few considerations of Indigenous knowledges under a history of knowledge frame (see also Urton, 2017; Echterhölter, 2020). Musgrove and Wolfe's article exemplifies how the history of education can be enlivened by focusing closely on the knowledge generated by and circulated through educational systems and institutions.…”

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The history of knowledge and the history of education

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Pietsch

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to introduce the themed section of History of Education Review on “The History of Knowledge and the History of Education”, comprising four empirical articles that together seek to bring the history of education into fuller dialogue with the approaches and methods of the nascent field of the history of knowledge.Design/methodology/approachThis introductory article provides a broad overview of the history of knowledge for the benefit of historians of education, introduces the four themed section articles that follow, and draws out some of their overarching themes and concepts.FindingsThe history of knowledge concept of “arenas of knowledge” emerges as generative across the themed section. Authors also engage with problems of the legitimacy of knowledges, and with pedagogy as practice. In addition, focusing on colonial and postcolonial contexts raises reflexive questions about history of knowledge approaches that have so far largely been developed in European and North American scholarship.Originality/valueThe history of education has not previously been strongly represented among the fields that have gone into the formation of the history of knowledge as a synthetic, interdisciplinary approach to historical studies. Nor have historians of education much engaged with its distinguishing concepts and methodologies. The themed section also extends the history of knowledge itself through its strong focus on colonial and postcolonial histories.

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The history of knowledge and the history of education

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2022

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“…Recently, the content of the responses has been investigated as part of the enquête tradition (Herrnstadt and Renard 2020; Midena 2022, Midena and Echterhölter forthcoming). Local officials, although clearly dependent on informants and go-betweens, often knew more about indigenous rules and institutions than scholars of law in Berlin (Echterhölter 2020). As the example of Kohler showed, these documents give no direct access to historical legal customs and have to be read with caution, and compared to other sets of answers from Micronesia.…”

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Formative encounters: Colonial data collection on land and law in German Micronesia

Echterhölter

2021

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Argument Data collections are a hallmark of nineteenth-century administrative knowledge making, and they were by no means confined to Europe. All colonial empires transferred and translated these techniques of serialised and quantified information gathering to their dominions overseas. The colonial situation affected the encounters underlying vital statistics, enquête methods and land surveying. In this paper, two of those data collections will be investigated—a survey on land and a survey on indigenous law, both conducted around 1910 on the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, which had fallen under German colonial influence a decade earlier. Strikingly, there are no enumerators or envoys of the state visiting the doorsteps of Pohnpei. To facilitate the data collection on homesteads, the whole population of the island was called upon to measure their respective plots of land themselves, without resorting to certified land surveyors. The preserved cadastral lists and spreadsheets testify to a rather peculiar contact between the colonizing administration and the colonized peoples. I argue that the production of data made encounters necessary, which are best observed though a methodological focus on data practices. I argue, furthermore, that the Pohnpeians were prompted during the surveys to define their homestead in new terms. This did not only entail new two-dimensional plots but also a new regime of private property. The change in the legal concept can be seen as a continuation of colonial violence by other means, given that it happened in the aftermath of the defeated Pohnpei Rebellion. The argument of the paper is, therefore, that data collection can have formative effects on society, and that measurement and quantified information are often, as Witold Kula argued, a scene of conflict. At its core, the installation of these metric regimes signified a change in patterns of justification, resource management and the unwritten constitution of the Pacific island.

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The History of Knowledge

Östling,

Larsson Heidenblad

2023

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This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field in a certain direction – towards studying knowledge in society and knowledge in people's lives. Hence, the history of knowledge envisioned by the authors is not a rebranding of the history of science and intellectual history, but rather a reinvigoration of social and cultural history. This implies that many different forms of knowledge should be objects of study. By drawing on ongoing research from all across the world dealing with different time periods and problems, the authors demonstrate that the history of knowledge can enrich our understanding of past societies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Shells and Order: Questionnaires on Indigenous Law in German New Guinea

Cited by 5 publications

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The history of knowledge and the history of education

The history of knowledge and the history of education

Formative encounters: Colonial data collection on land and law in German Micronesia

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