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In the Museum of Man : Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (389 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801469046
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the Museum of ManDDC classification:
  • 301.0944
LOC classification:
  • GN17
Online resources:
Contents:
In the Museum of Man -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Races, Bones, and Artifacts: A General Science of Man in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Toward a New Synthesis: The Birth of Academic Ethnology -- 3. Ethnology for the Masses: The Making of the Musée de l'Homme -- 4. Skulls on Display: Antiracism, Racism, and Racial Science -- 5. Ethnology: A Colonial Form of Knowledge? -- 6. From the Study to the Field: Ethnologists in the Empire -- 7. Ethnologists at War: Vichy and the Race Question -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism.
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In the Museum of Man -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Races, Bones, and Artifacts: A General Science of Man in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Toward a New Synthesis: The Birth of Academic Ethnology -- 3. Ethnology for the Masses: The Making of the Musée de l'Homme -- 4. Skulls on Display: Antiracism, Racism, and Racial Science -- 5. Ethnology: A Colonial Form of Knowledge? -- 6. From the Study to the Field: Ethnologists in the Empire -- 7. Ethnologists at War: Vichy and the Race Question -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

This book offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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