ISBN:
9780511996443
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages)
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DDC:
305.80097309/04
Keywords:
Boas, Franz
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Century of Progress International Exposition / (1933-1934 / Chicago, Ill.) / Exhibitions
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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Physical anthropology / United States / History / 20th century
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Race / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century
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Somatotypes / United States / History / 20th century
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Race awareness / United States / History / 20th century
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Racism in anthropology / United States / History / 20th century
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Rasse
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Anthropologie
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Ethnologie
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Geschichte
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USA
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USA
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Ausstellungskatalog
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USA
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Anthropologie
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Ethnologie
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Boas, Franz 1858-1942
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Rasse
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Geschichte
Abstract:
Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field
Description / Table of Contents:
Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race, anthropology, and the American public : an introductory essay -- 2. Franz Boas and race : history, environment, heredity -- 3. Order for a disordered world : The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? : Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- 7. Alternatives to race? : ethnicity, genetics, biology -- 8. Conclusion
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511996443
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