Anthropology at war
Subtitle: World War I and the science of race in Germany
By: Andrew D. Evans.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226222677; 9780226222684
Subjects: Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Racism in anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Institutionalizing the "most recent science" : anthropology in the world of German learning at the fin de siècle; title: The meaning of race : the liberal paradigm in prewar German anthropology; title: Nationalism and mobilization in wartime anthropology, 1914-18; title: "Among foreign peoples" : racial studies of POWs during World War I; title: Capturing race : anthropology and photography in POW camps during World War I; title: Anthropology in the aftermath : Rassenkunde, racial hygiene, and the end of the liberal tradition.