TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zimmerman,Andrew
TI  - Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany
SN  - 9780226983462 (electronic bk.)
AV  - GN17.3.G3 Z54 2001eb
U1  - 306/.0943/09034 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Humanism
KW  - Science
KW  - Humanismo
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Alemania
KW  - Ciencia
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Humanisme
KW  - Sciences
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Antropologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Mensbeeld
KW  - Kolonialisme
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-356) and index; 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
N2  - 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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