Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany [electronic resource] / by Andrew Zimmerman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 364 p.) : illISBN:- 9780226983462 (electronic bk.)
- 0226983463 (electronic bk.)
- Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Humanism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
- Humanismo -- Historia -- Siglo XIX -- Alemania
- Ciencia -- Alemania -- Historia -- Siglo XIX
- Anthropologie -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Humanisme -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Sciences -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Antropologie
- Mensbeeld
- Kolonialisme
- 306/.0943/09034 22
- GN17.3.G3 Z54 2001eb
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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.
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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