In the museum of man : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / Alice L. Conklin.
- Conklin, Alice L.
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Physical description
xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
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 Musée de l'homme -- Skulls on display : antiracism, 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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-364) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineBU.36.AA8-9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780801437557
- 0801437555
- 9780801478789
- 0801478782