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Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
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Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany Hardcover - 2001

by Andi Zimmerman

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The history of anthropology has been written inside out.

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The rise of imperialism jeopardized the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world. 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.

As Germans interacted more frequently with peoples and objects from far-flung cultures, they were forced to reevaluate not just those peoples, but also the construction of German identity itself. Anthropologists successfully argued that their discipline addressed these issues more productively--and more accessibly--than humanistic studies. Zimmerman draws on sources ranging from scientific papers and government correspondence to photographs, pamphlets, and police reports of "freak shows" to demonstrate how German imperialism opened the door to antihumanism.

Scholars of anthropology, European and intellectual history, museum studies, the history of science, popular culture, and colonial studies will welcome this book.

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  • Title Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
  • Author Andi Zimmerman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date November 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226983417 / 0226983412
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.32 x 1.19 in (23.47 x 16.05 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects Anthropology - Germany - History - 19th, Humanism - Germany - History - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001035163
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.094

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2002, Page 322

About the author

Andrew Zimmerman is an assistant professor of history at George Washington University.

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