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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818767903321

Autore

Penny H. Glenn

Titolo

Worldly Provincialism [[electronic resource] ] : German Anthropology in the Age of Empire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-69571-1

9786612695711

0-472-02524-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany

Altri autori (Persone)

BunzlMatti

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Anthropology -- Germany -- History

Electronic books. -- local

Germany -- History

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Anthropology - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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 GrosseAnthropology 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