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Worldly Provincialism : German Anthropology in the Age of Empire.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472025244
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worldly ProvincialismDDC classification:
  • 301/.0943
LOC classification:
  • GN17
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Illustrates the impact of imperialism on German scholars in the fields of anthropology and ethnology.
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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.

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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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