Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany

- Contents

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I
1. Exotic Spectacles and the Global Context of German Anthropology
2. Kultur and Kulturkampf: The Studia Humanitas and the People without History
3. Nature and the Boundaries of the Human: Monkeys, Monsters, and Natural Peoples
4. Measuring Skulls: The Social Role of the Antihumanist
Part II
5. A German Republic of Science and a German Idea of Truth: Empiricism and Sociability in Anthropology
6. Anthropological Patriotism: The Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany
Part III
7. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation: The Political Economy of Anthropological Objects
8. Commodities, Curiosities, and the Display of Anthropological Objects in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology
Part IV
9. History without Humanism: Culture-Historical Anthropology and the Triumph of the Museum
10. Colonialism and the Limits of the Human: The Failure of Fieldwork
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
History: European History
Sociology: General Sociology
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