The invention of race: scientific and popular representations/ edited by Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, and Dominic Thomas.
Material type: 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: 305.8Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 305.8 BAN/I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P41142 |
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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