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onception of what it meant to know another culture, the missionaries "diminished the aesthetic and racial categories so important to the naturalists" and "supplemented them with ethical and religious canons."

In sum, they toppled old systems of belief, Liebersohn said, "while working to install colonial rule and capitalist commerce. From the beginning they were controversial."

By the early 19th century the world of the travelers ?"steadily accumulating knowledge for its European public" ?looked like a scientific success. But just when it seemed triumphant, it collided with the missionaries' world, which instead of modernizing Polynesian cultures, as the scientists proposed to do, "sought to eradicate them."

"The conflict between scientists and missionaries was a critical event in European intellectual history of the first half of the nineteenth century. Parties to both sides were convinced of the truth of their position and the bad faith of their opponents."


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Source:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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