Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)

Contents......Page 6
Introduction: Rethinking German Anthropology, Colonialism, and Race / Matti Bunzl and H. Glenn Penny......Page 8
Coming of Age in the Pacific: German Ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer / Harry Liebersohn......Page 38
Völkerpsychologie and German-Jewish Emancipation / Matti Bunzl......Page 54
Bastian’s Museum: On the Limits of Empiricism and the Transformation of German Ethnology / H. Glenn Penny......Page 93
Spectacles of (Human) Nature: Commercial Ethnography between Leisure, Learning, and Schaulust / Sierra A. Bruckner......Page 134
Adventures in the Skin Trade: German Anthropology and Colonial Corporeality / Andrew Zimmerman......Page 163
Turning Native? Anthropology, German Colonialism, and the Paradoxes of the “Acclimatization Question,” 1885–1914 / Pascal Grosse......Page 186
Anthropology at War: Racial Studies of POWs during World War I / Andrew D. Evans......Page 205
Colonizing Anthropology: Albert Hahl and the Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea / Rainer Buschmann......Page 237
Gathering the Hunters: Bushmen in German (Colonial) Anthropology / Robert J. Gordon......Page 263
Priests among the Pygmies: Wilhelm Schmidt and the Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology / Suzanne Marchand......Page 290
Bibliography......Page 324
Contributors......Page 350
Index......Page 354