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1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356) and index. |
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. |
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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Anthropology. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Humanism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Humanism. |
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Science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Science. |
Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History.
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Print version: Zimmerman, Andrew. Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001 9780226983424 (DLC) 2001035163 (OCoLC)46731242 |
ISBN |
9780226983462 (electronic book) |
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0226983463 (electronic book) |
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9780226983424 |
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0226983412 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226983420 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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