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Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany / by Andrew Zimmerman.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: GN17.3.G3 Z54 2001

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Zimmerman, Andrew.
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2001]
©2001
Locale: Germany
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic address (http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d4g5-aa) not available when searched on Dec. 10, 2018.
ISBN: 0226983412
0226983420
Physical Description: ix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Anthropology--Germany--History--19th century. Humanism--Germany--History--19th century. Science--Germany--History--19th century.

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