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Author Conklin, Alice L.

Title In the museum of man : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / Alice L. Conklin.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (389 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Musee 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Anthropology -- France -- History.
Ethnology -- France -- History.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- France -- History.
Race -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Conklin, Alice L. In the museum of man : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013 xii, 374 pages 9780801478789 (DLC) 2013009576
ISBN 9780801437557 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801478789 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801469046 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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