Anthropology's global histories : the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 / Rainer F. Buschmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buschmann, Rainer F.

Series:

Perspectives on the global past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Papua New Guinea--History.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Research--Papua New Guinea--History.

Anthropology--Research.

History.

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

x, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2009.

Summary:

The idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse sociopolitical experiments-the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro-in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the "new man."

Contents:

Introduction : toward a global history of anthropology

Berlin's monopoly

Commercializing the ethnographic frontier

Losing the monopoly

Restructuring ethnology and imperialism

Albert Hahl and the colonization of the ethnographic frontier

Indigenous reactions

The ethnographic frontier in German postcolonial visions

Conclusion : anthropology's global histories in Oceania.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.

ISBN:

9780824831844

0824831845

OCLC:

227911353