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  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: African Studies and the Classification of Humanity
  • 1. Before the Fact: The Beginnings of African Studies on the Mission Field, 1814-87
  • 2. Beyond the Missionary Field: The Development of African Studies at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin
  • 3. The Making of a "Great Africanist": Carl Meinhof in Zizow and Berlin, 1886-1909
  • 4. Anthropology and Linguistics United? Carl Meinhof, Felix von Luschan, and the Hamitic Hypothesis
  • 5. Experimenting in the Metropole: The Theory and Practice of African Studies, 1908-19 6. Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: African Teaching Assistants in Berlin and Hamburg, 1889-1919
  • 7. After the Colonial Moment: German Influences on South African Linguistics and Ethnology, 1920-45
  • Conclusion: The Legacy of Afrikanistik
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index