Science and Whiteness as Property in the Dutch Atlantic World: Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
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Title
Science and Whiteness as Property in the Dutch Atlantic World: Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
Subject
Maria Sibylla Merian; Suriname; colonialism; race; natural history; gender
Description
This article examines how Maria Sibylla Merian’s work Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, was part of the capitalist exploitation of colonial natural resources. It critiques how the scientific and artistic knowledge created by entrepreneur-naturalists like Merian reinforced ideologies linked to colonial exploitation.
Creator
Tomomi Kinukawa
Source
Project MUSE
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date
2012
Rights
© 2012 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 24 No. 3
Relation
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Article
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2012.0031
Coverage
17th-century Dutch natural history, colonial Suriname
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Original Format
Journal Article
Citation
Tomomi Kinukawa, “Science and Whiteness as Property in the Dutch Atlantic World: Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705),” Omeka, accessed February 6, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/358.