Description: Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I 1. Exotic Spectacles and the Global Context of German Anthropology 2. Kultur and Kulturkampf: The Studia Humanitas and the People without History 3. Nature and the Boundaries of the Human: Monkeys, Monsters, and Natural Peoples 4. Measuring Skulls: The Social Role of the Antihumanist Part II 5. A German Republic of Science and a German Idea of Truth: Empiricism and Sociability in Anthropology 6. Anthropological Patriotism: The Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany Part III 7. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation: The Political Economy of Anthropological Objects 8. Commodities, Curiosities, and the Display of Anthropological Objects in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology Part IV 9. History without Humanism: Culture-Historical Anthropology and the Triumph of the Museum 10. Colonialism and the Limits of the Human: The Failure of Fieldwork Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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