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In the Museum of Man : Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 /

"In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conklin, Alice L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Races, bones, and artifacts : a general science of man in the nineteenth century
  • Toward a new synthesis : the birth of academic ethnology
  • Ethnology for the masses : the making of the Musee de l'homme
  • Skulls on display : anti-racism, racism, and racial science
  • Ethnology : a colonial form of knowledge?
  • From the study to the field : ethnologists in the empire
  • Ethnologists at war : Vichy and the race question
  • Conclusion : race as myth : UNESCO's new humanism and beyond.