Anthropology at War 1st Edition by Andrew D Evans ISBN 0226222683 978-0226222684

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ISBN 10: 0226222683

ISBN 13: 978-0226222684 

Author: Andrew D. Evans

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. As the war shaped the institutional, ideological, and physical environment for anthropological work, the discipline turned its back on its liberal roots and became a nationalist endeavor primarily concerned with scientific studies of race.

Combining intellectual and cultural history with the history of science, Anthropology at War examines both the origins and consequences of this shift. Evans locates its roots in the decision to allow scientists access to prisoner-of-war camps, which prompted them to focus their research on racial studies of the captives. Caught up in wartime nationalism, a new generation of anthropologists began to portray the country’s political enemies as racially different. After the war ended, the importance placed on racial conceptions and categories persisted, paving the way for the politicization of scientific inquiry in the years of the ascendancy of National Socialism.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter One
Institutionalizing the “Most Recent Science”: Anthropology in the World of German Learning at the Fin de Siècle

Chapter Two
The Meaning of Race: The Liberal Paradigm in Prewar German Anthropology

Chapter Three
Nationalism and Mobilization in Wartime Anthropology, 1914–18

Chapter Four
“Among Foreign Peoples”: Racial Studies of POWs during World War I

Chapter Five
Capturing Race: Anthropology and Photography in POW Camps during World War I

Chapter Six
Anthropology in the Aftermath: Rassenkunde, Racial Hygiene, and the End of the Liberal Tradition

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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