In the Museum of Man : Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (389 pages)
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.