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Race Experts : Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind /

"In 'Race Experts' Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the 'Races of Mankind' series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protege of Auguste Rodin and Ivan...

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Autor principal: Kim, Linda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Racial know-how : expertise versus common sense
  • Mediations : art in the natural history museum
  • Racial portraiture : between typologies and commonsense
  • Racial homelands : popular geography and local races
  • Micro-expertise : passing for Indian, passing for white.