{"id":207,"date":"2012-06-04T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-06-17T01:43:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T01:43:15","slug":"venus-von-samoa-rasse-und-sexualitat-im-deutschen-sudpazifik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/venus-von-samoa-rasse-und-sexualitat-im-deutschen-sudpazifik\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus von Samoa: Rasse und Sexualit\u00e4t im deutschen S\u00fcdpazifik"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2012\/06\/Samoan-man-with-tattoos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2012\/06\/Samoan-man-with-tattoos-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2012\/06\/Samoan-man-with-tattoos-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2012\/06\/Samoan-man-with-tattoos.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Thomas Andrew, taken in Apia, Samoa, around 1893.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The German Empire embarked upon its colonial project just as sexological research was becoming ever more prominent in German culture and scholarship.This essay, written in German, focuses on the German colonization of Samoa as it looks for an overlap between the colonialist and sexological discourses. Sources include Karl May&#8217;s novel <em>Am stillen Ozean<\/em>, articles in the German-language newspaper of Apia, <em>Die samoanische Zeitung<\/em>, and postcards of South Sea beauties and scholarly studies of exotically tattooed men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Venus von Samoa: Rasse und Sexualit\u00e4t im deutschen S\u00fcdpazifik,&#8221; in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Kolonialismus als Kultur\u00a0: Literatur, Medien, Wissenschaft in der deutschen Gr\u00fcnderzeit des Fremden<\/span>, ed. Alexander Honold and Oliver Simons (T\u00fcbingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2002) 192-220.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Empire embarked upon its colonial project just as sexological research was becoming ever more prominent in German culture and scholarship.This essay, written in German, focuses on the German colonization of Samoa as it looks for an overlap between &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/venus-von-samoa-rasse-und-sexualitat-im-deutschen-sudpazifik\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venus von Samoa: Rasse und Sexualit\u00e4t im deutschen S\u00fcdpazifik<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4349,12130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-published-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}