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1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world was jeopardized. Nowhere was this more true than in nineteenth-century Germany. It was there, Andrew Zimmerman argues, that the battle lines of today's "culture wars" were first drawn when anthropology challenged humanism as a basis for human scientific knowledge. Drawing on sources ranging from scientific papers and government correspondence to photographs, pamphlets, and police reports of "freak shows," Zimmerman demonstrates how German imperiali |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Humanism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Anthropology
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Humanism
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Science
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Antropologie.
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Mensbeeld.
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Kolonialisme.
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226983462 |
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0226983463 |
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9780226983417 |
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0226983412 |
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