In the museum of man : : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / / Alice L. Conklin.

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (389 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Musee 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.