Anthropology & Antihumanism in Imperial Germany

Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1(14) PART I Exotic Spectacles and the Global Context of German Anthropology 15(23) Kultur and Kulturkampf: The Studia Humanitas and the People without History 38(24) Nature and the Boundaries of the Human: Monkeys, Monsters, and Natural Peoples 62(24) Measuring Skulls: The Social Role of the Antihumanist 86(25) PART II A German Republic of Science and a German Idea of Truth: Empiricism and Sociability in Anthropology 111(24) Anthropological Patriotism: The Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany 135(14) PART III The Secret of Primitive Accumulation: The Political Economy of Anthropological Objects 149(23) Commodities, Curiosities, and the Display of Anthropological Objects 172(29) PART IV History without Humanism: Culture-Historical Anthropology and the Triumph of the Museum 201(16) Colonialism and the Limits of the Human: The Failure of Fieldwork 217(22) Conclusion 239(10) Notes 249(80) Bibliography 329(28) Index 357