Anthropology's Global Histories : : The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 /

Anthropology's Global Histories : : The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 / / Rainer F. Buschmann.

Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologi...

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Buschmann, Rainer F.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 b&w images, 3 maps, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Toward a Global History of Anthropology
  • 1. Berlin's Monopoly
  • 2. Commercializing the Ethnographic Frontier
  • 3. Losing the Monopoly
  • 4. Restructuring Ethnology and Imperialism
  • 5. Albert Hahl and the Colonization of the Ethnographic Frontier
  • 6. Indigenous Reactions
  • 7. The Ethnographic Frontier in German Postcolonial Visions
  • Anthropology's Global Histories in Oceania
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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