National Races Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945 / edited by Richard McMahon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McMahon, Richard (Richard Eoin), editor.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology.

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--History--19th century.

Race--Classification--History--20th century.

Race.

Race--Classification--History--19th century.

National characteristics--History--20th century.

National characteristics.

National characteristics--History--19th century.

Physical anthropology--History--20th century.

Physical anthropology.

Physical anthropology--History--19th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Summary:

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard McMahon calls "national races, " or the ageless biological essences of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric geopolitics treated "national races" as the proxies of nations in order to legitimize present-day geopolitical positions. On the other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary project was a vital episode in the development of the social sciences, using biological race classification to explain the history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations. National Races goes to the heart of tensions between nationalism and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries. Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of historians on France, Britain, and Germany, with myriad case studies and examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists.

Contents:

Transnational network, transnational narratives : scientific race classifications and national identities / Richard McMahon

The destiny of races "not yet called to civilization" : Giustiniano Nicolucci's critique of American polygenism and defense of liberal racism / Maria Sophia Quine

A matter of place, space, and people : Cracow anthropology, 1870-1920 / Maria Rhode

Yet another Greek tragedy? : physical anthropology and the construction of national identity in the late nineteenth century / Ageliki Lefkaditou

Jews between Volk and Rasse / Amos Morris-Reich

Classifying hybridity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian imperial anthropology / Marina Mogilner

Physical anthropology in colonial Korea : science and colonial order, 1916-40 / Arnaud Nanta

Racial anthropology on the Eastern Front, 1912 to mid-1920s / Maciej Gorny

Racial politics as a multiethnic pavilion : Yugoslavs, dinarics, and the search for a synthetic identity in the 1920s and 1930s / Rory Yeomans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496215826

1496215826

9781496215840

1496215842

OCLC:

1105199959