Title Constructing race : the science of bodies and cultures in American anthropology / Tracy Teslow

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Race, anthropology, and the American public: an introductory essay -- Franz Boas and race: history, environment, heredity -- Order for a disordered world: The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- Rejecting race, embracing man? Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- Alternatives to race? Ethnicity, genetics, biology Summary This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century "Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed September 9, 2016) SUBJECT Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Exhibitions Century of Progress International Exposition fast Subject Physical anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century Race -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Somatotypes -- United States -- History -- 20th century Race awareness -- United States -- History -- 20th century Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Race awareness Racism in anthropology Physical anthropology Race -- Social aspects Somatotypes United States Genre/Form History Exhibition catalogs Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139958608 1139958607 9781139959667 1139959662 9781139957540 1139957546 9780511996443 0511996446 9781316603383 1316603385

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