This article analyses how European travellers depicted the bodies of indigenous people in their travel narrations. Three travel writers, Peter Kolb, Anders Sparrman and Sir John Barrow, were selected to investigate how the bodies of indigenous people were perceived at the Cape Colony. Grosfoguel’s theoretical framework of the coloniality of power, the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being was used to ground and investigate the coloniality of the body in the Colony. The findings suggest that the portrayal of indigenous people’s bodies by Europeans in their travel accounts has connotations of racial stereotypes, which are characterised by a colonial power matrix of subjugation, hierarchisation, Eurocentrism, dehumanisation and objectification of indigenous people. European travellers used the notion of Eurocentric power, the epistemology of the West and the degradation of “being” to depict the bodies of the indigenous people.

中文翻译：

---

欧洲旅行作家在南非开普殖民地体现的土著人民

本文分析了欧洲旅行者在旅行叙述中如何描绘土著人民的尸体。选择了三位旅行作家彼得·科尔布（Peter Kolb），安德斯·斯帕曼（Anders Sparrman）和约翰·巴罗爵士（Sir John Barrow），调查在开普殖民地如何看待土著人民的尸体。格罗斯福（Grosfoguel）关于权力殖民地，知识殖民地和存在殖民地的理论框架被用来研究殖民地身体的殖民地。研究结果表明，欧洲人在其旅行账户中对土著人民身体的刻画具有种族刻板印象的特征，其特征是殖民化的权力矩阵，即对土著人民的屈从，等级制，欧洲中心主义，非人性化和客观化。欧洲旅行者使用了以欧洲为中心的力量的概念，