TY - BOOK ID - 77880422 TI - Anthropology and antihumanism in Imperial Germany PY - 2001 SN - 128250584X 9786612505843 0226983463 9780226983462 9780226983417 0226983412 9780226983424 0226983412 0226983420 9781282505841 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology KW - Humanism KW - Science KW - Natural science KW - Natural sciences KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Philosophy KW - Classical education KW - Classical philology KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Renaissance KW - Human beings KW - History KW - Primitive societies KW - anthropologist, anthropological, german, europe, european, academic, scholarly, history, research, historical, tradition, humanism, humanist, scholarship, imperalism, 19th century, 1800s, time period, culture, cultural, science, scientific, knowledge, government, letters, photographs, pamphlet, police, museum, colonial, higher ed, college, university, textbook, major, empiricism, republic, fieldwork, artifacts. KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880422 AB - With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world was jeopardized. Nowhere was this more true than in nineteenth-century Germany. It was there, Andrew Zimmerman argues, that the battle lines of today's "culture wars" were first drawn when anthropology challenged humanism as a basis for human scientific knowledge. Drawing on sources ranging from scientific papers and government correspondence to photographs, pamphlets, and police reports of "freak shows," Zimmerman demonstrates how German imperialism opened the door to antihumanism. As Germans interacted more frequently with peoples and objects from far-flung cultures, they were forced to reevaluate not just those peoples, but also the construction of German identity itself. Anthropologists successfully argued that their discipline addressed these issues more productively-and more accessibly-than humanistic studies. Scholars of anthropology, European and intellectual history, museum studies, the history of science, popular culture, and colonial studies will welcome this book. ER -