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The invention of race: scientific and popular representations/ edited by Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, and Dominic Thomas.

Contributor(s): Bancel, Nicolas, ed | David, Thomas, ed | Thomas, Dominic, edMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge studies in cultural history, 28Publication details: London: Routledge, 2014Description: ix, 307 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415743938Subject(s): Physical anthropology | Popular culture | Race--Social aspects DDC classification: 305.8

Contents:

Part I: The Genealogy of Race in the Eighteenth Century; 1. Biologization of Race and Racialization of the Human: 2. Cranial Varieties in the Human and Orangutan Species 3. The Creation of the "Negro" at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 4. Panel and Sequence: Classifications and Associations in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Races (1770-1830) 5. Christoph Meiners' "New Science" (1747-1810); "New Science" in Meiners' Work. Part II: The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Racial Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century; 6. Construction and Circulation of the Notion of "Race" in the Nineteenth Century; 7. "We Can't Help Laughing": Physical Anthropology in Belgium and Congo (1882-1914) 8. Danish Perceptions of Race and Anthropological Science at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Introduction

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.8 BAN/I (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P41142

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Part I: The Genealogy of Race in the Eighteenth Century;

1. Biologization of Race and Racialization of the Human:

2. Cranial Varieties in the Human and Orangutan Species

3. The Creation of the "Negro" at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

4. Panel and Sequence: Classifications and Associations in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Races (1770-1830)

5. Christoph Meiners' "New Science" (1747-1810); "New Science" in Meiners' Work.

Part II: The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Racial Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century;

6. Construction and Circulation of the Notion of "Race" in the Nineteenth Century;

7. "We Can't Help Laughing": Physical Anthropology in Belgium and Congo (1882-1914)

8. Danish Perceptions of Race and Anthropological Science at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Introduction

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