Physical Description
ix, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Exotic spectacles and the global context of German anthropology
Kultur and kulturkampf: the studia humanitas and the people without history
Nature and the boundaries of the human: monkeys, monsters, and natural peoples
Measuring skulls: the social role of the antihumanist
A German republic of science and a German idea of truth: empiricism and sociability in anthropology
Anthropological patriotism: the Schulstatistik and the racial composition of Germany
The secret of primitive accumulation: the political economy of anthropological objects
Commodities, curiosities, and the display of anthropological objects
History without humanism: culture-historical anthropology and the triumph of the museum
Colonialism and the limits of the human: the failure of fieldwork.
ISBN
0226983412
0226983420 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-356) and index.
Exotic spectacles and the global context of German anthropology -- Kultur and kulturkampf: the studia humanitas and the people without history -- Nature and the boundaries of the human: monkeys, monsters, and natural peoples -- Measuring skulls: the social role of the antihumanist -- A German republic of science and a German idea of truth: empiricism and sociability in anthropology -- Anthropological patriotism: the Schulstatistik and the racial composition of Germany -- The secret of primitive accumulation: the political economy of anthropological objects -- Commodities, curiosities, and the display of anthropological objects -- History without humanism: culture-historical anthropology and the triumph of the museum -- Colonialism and the limits of the human: the failure of fieldwork.
