In the museum of man : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conklin, Alice L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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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 Mus�ee 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.