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Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany /

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimmerman, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 wars" were first drawn when anthropology challenged humanism as a basis for human scientific knowledge. Drawing on sources ranging from scientific papers and government correspondence to photographs, pamphlets, and police reports of "freak shows," Zimmerman demonstrates how German imperiali
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356) and index.
ISBN:9780226983462
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9780226983417
0226983412