The Invention of Race

Scientific and Popular Representations
Herausgeber: Bancel, Nicolas; Thomas, Dominic; David, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection explores the complex formation and performance of "race" from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. It features contributions from many disciplines, including history, sociology, disability studies, literary studies, and anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780415743938
• ISBN-10: 0415743931
• Artikelnr.: 39524432

Autorenporträt

Nicolas Bancel is Professor at the Insititute of Sports Science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Thomas David is Professor at the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Chair of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations
of Race from Linnaeus to the Ethnic Shows Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, and
Dominic Thomas Part I: The Genealogy of Race in the 18th Century 1.
Biologization of Race and Racialization of the Human: Bernier, Buffon,
Linnaeus Thierry Hoquet 2. Cranial Varieties in the Human and Orang Utan
Species Miriam Claude Meijer 3. The Creation of the "Negro" at the Turn of
the Nineteenth Century: Petrus Camper, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and
Julien-Joseph Virey Francesco Panese 4. Panel and Sequence: Classifications
and Associations in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Races (1770-1830)
Martial Guédron 5. Christoph Meiners's "New Science" (1747-1810) Britta
Rupp-Eisenreich Part II: The Internationalization and Institutionalization
of Racial Anthropology in the 19th Century 6. Construction and Circulation
of the Notion of "Race" in the Nineteenth Century Carole Reynaud Paligot
7. "We Can't Help Laughing": Physical Anthropology in Belgium and Congo
(1882-1914) Maarten Couttenier 8. Danish Perceptions of Race and
Anthropological Science at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rikke
Andreassen 9. Discourses of Race in Imperial Russia (1830s-1914) Vera Tolz
10. The Reception of the Idea of Race in East Asia Gérard Siary 11. The
Anthropological Society of Tokyo and the Ainu: Racial Classifications,
Prehistory and National Identity (1880-1910) Arnaud Nanta 12. Warfare,
Commerce and Science: Racial Biology in South Africa Patrick Harries Part
III: The Transcription and Exhibition of Race 13. From Cabinets of
Curiosity to the "Hottentot Venus": A Long History of Human Zoos Gilles
Boëtsch and Pascal Blanchard 14. Race, Showmen, Disability and the Freak
Show Robert Bogdan 15. In Sight and Sound with the Other Senses All Around:
Racial Hierarchies at America's World's Fairs Robert W. Rydell 16. Human
Exhibitions at World's Fairs: Between Scientific Categorization and
Exoticism?: The French Colonial Presence at Midway Plaisance, World's
Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 Catherine Hodeir 17. Exhibiting Haiti:
Questioning Race at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 Charles Forsdick
18. Races on Exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis Anthropology Days Fabrice
Delsahut 19. Eskimos in the Museum, Pygmy in a Cage, Social Darwinism
Everywhere Herman Lebovics 20. Emile Yung and the African Village at the
Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva, 1896 Patrick Minder 21. Beyond
Objectivity: Anthropometric Photography and Visual Culture Christian
Joschke