LEADER 05329cam a2200577 i 4500001 280334 005 20240621233210.0 008 181106s2019 nbuab b 001 0 eng 010 2018047769 015 GBB9C4694 |2bnb 019 1063709113 020 9781496205827 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 1496205820 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 |z9781496215826 |qelectronic publication 020 |z9781496215833 |qmobi 020 |z9781496215840 |qelectronic book 020 9781496225849 |q(paperback : alkaline paper) 020 1496225848 035 (OCoLC)on1080250594 035 280334 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dYDX |dBDX |dOCLCQ |dOCLCF |dYDX |dUKMGB |dGYG |dDLC |dLHM 050 00 GN62.8 |b.N37 2019 245 00 National races : |btransnational power struggles in the sciences and politics of human diversity, 1840-1945 / |cedited by Richard McMahon. 264 1 Lincoln : |bUniversity of Nebraska Press, |c[2019] 300 x, 384 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Critical studies in the history of anthropology 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |tIntroduction: Political identities and transnational science / |rRichard McMahon -- |g1. |tTransnational network, transnational narratives : scientific race classifications and national identities / |rRichard McMahon -- |g2. |tDestiny of races "not yet called to civilization" : Giustiniano Nicolucci's critique of American polygenism and defense of liberal racism / |rMaria Sophia Quine -- |g3. |tA matter of place, space, and people : Cracow anthropology, 1870-1920 / |rMaria Rhode -- |g4. |tYet another Greek tragedy? : physical anthropology and the construction of national identity in the late nineteenth century / |rAgeliki Lefkaditou -- |g5. |tJews between Volk and Rasse / |rAmos Morris-Reich -- |g6. |tClassifying hybridity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian imperial anthropology / |rMarina Mogilner -- |g7. |tPhysical anthropology in colonial Korea : science and colonial order, 1916-40 / |rArnaud Nanta -- |g8. |tRacial anthropology on the Eastern Front, 1912 to mid-1920s / |rMaciej Gorny -- |g9. |tRacial politics as a multiethnic pavilion : Yugoslavs, dinarics, and the search for a synthetic identity in the 1920s and 1930s / |rRory Yeomans -- |tConclusion: From national races to national genomes / |rCatherine Nash. 520 National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard McMahon calls "national races," or the ageless biological essences of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicit;y used race narratives to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric geopolitics treated "national races" as the proxies of nations in order to legitimize present-day geopolitical positions. On the other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary project was a vital episode in the development of the social sciences, using biological race classification to explain the history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations. National Races goes to the heart of tensions between nationalism and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries. Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of historians on France, Britain, and Germany, with myriad case studies and examples of nineteenth - and early twentieth-century racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists. -- |cFrom dust jacket. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Physical anthropology |xHistory |y19th century. 650 0 Physical anthropology |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 National characteristics |xHistory |y19th century. 650 0 National characteristics |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Race |xClassification |xHistory |y19th century. 650 0 Race |xClassification |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Nationalism |xHistory |y19th century. 650 0 Nationalism |xHistory |y20th century. 650 7 National characteristics. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01033330 650 7 Nationalism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01033832 650 7 Physical anthropology. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01062357 648 7 1800-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 McMahon, Richard |q(Richard Eoin), |eeditor. 830 0 Critical studies in the history of anthropology. 852 0 |bscstacks |hGN62.8 |i.N37 2019