LEADER 04144nam 2200685 450 001 9910787625103321 005 20230126210940.0 010 $a0-8014-6903-1 010 $a1-322-52239-1 010 $a0-8014-6904-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469046 035 $a(CKB)2670000000502203 035 $a(OCoLC)871223319 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10773786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001001191 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12460817 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001191 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10978903 035 $a(PQKB)11438514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138522 035 $a(DE-B1597)515860 035 $a(OCoLC)864276475 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469046 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58372 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138522 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10773786 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683521 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000502203 100 $a20130311d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the museum of man $erace, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 /$fAlice L. Conklin 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (389 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7878-2 311 $a0-8014-3755-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRaces, bones, and artifacts : a general science of man in the nineteenth century -- Toward a new synthesis : the birth of academic ethnology -- Ethnology for the masses : the making of the Muse?e de l'homme -- Skulls on display : anti-racism, racism, and racial science -- Ethnology : a colonial form of knowledge? -- From the study to the field : ethnologists in the empire -- Ethnologists at war : Vichy and the race question -- Conclusion : race as myth : UNESCO's new humanism and beyond. 330 $aIn the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath.Conklin addresses the influence exerted by academic networks, museum collections, and imperial connections in defining human diversity socioculturally rather than biologically, especially in the wake of resurgent anti-Semitism at the time of the Dreyfus Affair and in the 1930s and 1940s. Students of the progressive social scientist Marcel Mauss were exposed to the ravages of imperialism in the French colonies where they did fieldwork; as a result, they began to challenge both colonialism and the scientific racism that provided its intellectual justification. Indeed, a number of them were killed in the Resistance, fighting for the humanist values they had learned from their teachers and in the field. A riveting story of a close-knit community of scholars who came to see all societies as equally complex, In the Museum of Man serves as a reminder that if scientific expertise once authorized racism, anthropologists also learned to rethink their paradigms and mobilize against racial prejudice-a lesson well worth remembering today. 606 $aAnthropology$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aEthnology$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aRace$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAnthropology$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnology$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aRace$xSocial aspects. 676 $a301.0944 700 $aConklin$b Alice L$01116366 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787625103321 996 $aIn the museum of man$93703143 997 $aUNINA