Constructing Race - The Science of Bodies and Cultures in American Anthropology

Informationen zum Autor Tracy Teslow is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. She has received prestigious fellowships from the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Andrew Mellon Foundation; and the Getty Research Institute. Klappentext This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century! how they represented race to professional and lay publics! and how their efforts contributed to an American formulation of race that has remained rooted in both bodies and cultures! as well as heredity and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: race, anthropology, and the American public; 2. Franz Boas and race: history, environment, heredity; 3. Order for a disordered world: The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History; 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture; 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science; 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? Ruth Benedict's race and culture; 7. Rejecting race, embracing man? Race in postwar America; 8. Conclusion: the persistence of race.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Teslow, Tracy (University of Cincinnati) Teslow, Teslow Tracy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9781316603383
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60338-3
• No. of pages: 414
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SCIENCE / History, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies