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Worldly Provincialism : German Anthropology in the Age of Empire.

Penny, H. Glenn.

Worldly Provincialism : German Anthropology in the Age of Empire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (357 pages) - Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series . - Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking German Anthropology, Colonialism, and Race / Matti Bunzl and H. Glenn Penny -- Coming of Age in the Pacific: German Ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer / Harry Liebersohn -- Völkerpsychologie and German-Jewish Emancipation / Matti Bunzl -- Bastian's Museum: On the Limits of Empiricism and the Transformation of German Ethnology / H. Glenn Penny -- Spectacles of (Human) Nature: Commercial Ethnography between Leisure, Learning, and Schaulust / Sierra A. Bruckner -- Adventures in the Skin Trade: German Anthropology and Colonial Corporeality / Andrew Zimmerman -- Turning Native? Anthropology, German Colonialism, and the Paradoxes of the "Acclimatization Question," 1885-1914 / Pascal Grosse -- Anthropology at War: Racial Studies of POWs during World War I / Andrew D. Evans -- Colonizing Anthropology: Albert Hahl and the Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea / Rainer Buschmann -- Gathering the Hunters: Bushmen in German (Colonial) Anthropology / Robert J. Gordon -- Priests among the Pygmies: Wilhelm Schmidt and the Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology / Suzanne Marchand -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Illustrates the impact of imperialism on German scholars in the fields of anthropology and ethnology.

9780472025244


Anthropology -- Germany -- History.
Germany -- History.


Electronic books.

GN17

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