In the Museum of Man : : Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 /

In the Museum of Man : : Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 / / Alice L. Conklin.

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In 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 int...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Conklin, Alice L.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 19 hafltones, 2 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Races, Bones, and Artifacts: A General Science of Man in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2. Toward a New Synthesis: Th e Birth of Academic Ethnology
  • 3. Ethnology for the Masses: Th e Making of the Musée de l'Homme
  • 4. Skulls on Display: Antiracism, Racism, and Racial Science
  • 5. Ethnology: A Colonial Form of Knowledge?
  • 6. From the Study to the Field: Ethnologists in the Empire
  • 7. Ethnologists at War: Vichy and the Race Question
  • Epilogue
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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