In the museum of man : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850 - 1950

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Conklin, Alice L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca [u.a.] : Cornell University Press, 2013
Schlagworte:Anthropology Ethnology Imperialism Race Frankreich Kolonie Rasse Volkskunde Rassentheorie Anthropologie mehr... Ethnologie Imperialismus Forschung Musée de l'Homme
Umfang:XII, 374 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Races, 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 Musée 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.