Worldly provincialism : German anthropology in the age of empire / H. Glenn Penny and Matti Bunzl, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Penny, H. Glenn.

Bunzl, Matti, 1971-

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Germany--History.

Anthropology.

Germany--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illustrates the impact of imperialism on German scholars in the fields of anthropology and ethnology.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Rethinking German Anthropology, Colonialism, and Race / Matti Bunzl and H. Glenn Penny; Coming of Age in the Pacific: German Ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer / Harry Liebersohn; Völkerpsychologie and German-Jewish Emancipation / Matti Bunzl; Bastian's Museum: On the Limits of Empiricism and the Transformation of German Ethnology / H. Glenn Penny; Spectacles of (Human) Nature: Commercial Ethnography between Leisure, Learning, and Schaulust / Sierra A. Bruckner; Adventures in the Skin Trade: German Anthropology and Colonial Corporeality / Andrew Zimmerman

Turning Native? Anthropology, German Colonialism, and the Paradoxes of the "Acclimatization Question," 1885-1914 / Pascal GrosseAnthropology at War: Racial Studies of POWs during World War I / Andrew D. Evans; Colonizing Anthropology: Albert Hahl and the Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea / Rainer Buschmann; Gathering the Hunters: Bushmen in German (Colonial) Anthropology / Robert J. Gordon; Priests among the Pygmies: Wilhelm Schmidt and the Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology / Suzanne Marchand; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-342) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-69571-1

9786612695711

0-472-02524-4

OCLC:

743201426