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Author Evans, Andrew D. (Andrew David), 1968-

Title Anthropology at war : World War I and the science of race in Germany / Andrew D. Evans
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) : illustrations
Contents Institutionalizing the "most recent science" : anthropology in the world of German learning at the fin de siècle -- The meaning of race : the liberal paradigm in prewar German anthropology -- Nationalism and mobilization in wartime anthropology, 1914-18 -- "Among foreign peoples" : racial studies of POWs during World War I -- Capturing race : anthropology and photography in POW camps during World War I -- Anthropology in the aftermath : Rassenkunde, racial hygiene, and the end of the liberal tradition
Summary Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war but its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. Combining intellectual and cultural history with the history of science, this book examines both the origins and consequences of this shift
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Racism in anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Anthropology
Racism in anthropology
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009051469
ISBN 9780226222691
0226222691