ISBN:
9780226983462
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 364 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zimmerman, Andrew Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany
DDC:
301.0943
Keywords:
Anthropology ; Germany ; History ; 19th century
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Humanism ; Germany ; History ; 19th century
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Science ; Germany ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Deutschland
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Anthropologie
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Geschichte 1871-1910
Abstract:
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 imperialism opened the door to antihumanism. As Germans interacted more frequently with peoples and objects from far-flung cultures, they were forced to reevaluate not just those peoples, but also the construction of German identity itself. Anthropologists successfully argued that their discipline addressed these issues more productively-and more accessibly-than humanistic studies. Scholars of anthropology, European and intellectual history, museum studies, the history of science, popular culture, and colonial studies will welcome this book.
Abstract:
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1 Exotic Spectacles and the Global Context of German Anthropology -- CHAPTER 2 Kultur and Kulturkampf: The Studia Humanitas and the People without History -- CHAPTER 3 Nature and the Boundaries of the Human: Monkeys, Monsters, and Natural Peoples -- CHAPTER 4 Measuring Skulls: The Social Role of the Antihumanist -- PART II -- CHAPTER 5 A German Republic of Science and a German Idea of Truth: Empiricism and Sociability in Anthropology -- CHAPTER 6 Anthropological Patriotism: The Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany -- PART I I I -- CHAPTER 7 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation: The Political Economy of Anthropological Objects -- CHAPTER 8 Commodities, Curiosities, and the Display of Anthropological Objects -- PART IV -- CHAPTER 9 History without Humanism: Culture-Historical Anthropology and the Triumph of the Museum -- CHAPTER 10 Colonialism and the Limits of the Human: The Failure of Fieldwork -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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