Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany / by Andrew Zimmerman.
With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world was jeopardized. Nowhere was this more true than in nineteenth-century Germany. It was there, Andrew Zimmerman argues, that the battle lines of today's "culture...
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Table of Contents:
- Exotic spectacles and the global context of German anthropology
- Kultur and kulturkampf: the studia humanitas and the people without history
- Nature and the boundaries of the human: monkeys, monsters, and natural peoples
- Measuring skulls: the social role of the antihumanist
- A German republic of science and a German idea of truth: empiricism and sociability in anthropology
- Anthropological patriotism: the Schulstatistik and the racial composition of Germany
- The secret of primitive accumulation: the political economy of anthropological objects
- Commodities, curiosities, and the display of anthropological objects
- History without humanism: culture-historical anthropology and the triumph of the museum
- Colonialism and the limits of the human: the failure of fieldwork.