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Anthropology at war : World War I and the science of race in Germany / Andrew D. Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.Description: 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226222677 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226222684 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226222675 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226222683 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN17.3.G3 E93 2010
Contents:
Institutionalizing the "most recent science" : anthropology in the world of German learning at the fin de siècle -- The meaning of race : the liberal paradigm in prewar German anthropology -- Nationalism and mobilization in wartime anthropology, 1914-18 -- "Among foreign peoples" : racial studies of POWs during World War I -- Capturing race : anthropology and photography in POW camps during World War I -- Anthropology in the aftermath : Rassenkunde, racial hygiene, and the end of the liberal tradition.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks GN17.3.G3E93 2010 Available 33710001250252

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index.

Institutionalizing the "most recent science" : anthropology in the world of German learning at the fin de siècle -- The meaning of race : the liberal paradigm in prewar German anthropology -- Nationalism and mobilization in wartime anthropology, 1914-18 -- "Among foreign peoples" : racial studies of POWs during World War I -- Capturing race : anthropology and photography in POW camps during World War I -- Anthropology in the aftermath : Rassenkunde, racial hygiene, and the end of the liberal tradition.