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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conklin, Alice L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fysisk antropologi > sociala aspekter > historia.
Imperialism > sociala aspekter > historia.
Etnologi > historia.
Antropologi > historia.
1900-talet.
Rassentheorie
Forschung
Ethnologie
Anthropologie
Race > Social aspects.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
anthropology.
Anthropologie.
Race > Aspect social.
Imperialisme > Aspect social > France > Histoire.
Ethnologie > France > Histoire.
Anthropologie > France > Histoire.
Anthropology
Imperialism > Social aspects > France > History.
Ethnology > France > History.
Anthropology > France > History.
Frankreich
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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