Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany / by Andrew Zimmerman

Publication | Library Call Number: GN17.3.G3 Z54 2001

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Zimmerman, Andrew.
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-356) and index
Language: English
External Link: Book review (H-Net)

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