Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture

Name: Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
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ISBN: 9780822346982

ISBN-10: 0822346982

ISBN-13: 9780822346982

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lee D. Baker

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In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging "disappearing" Native American culture by curating objects, narrating practices, and recording languages. InAnthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by U.S. anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface: Questions


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift



Fabricating the Authentic and the Politics of the Real



Race, Relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's Ill-fated Bid for Prominence



The Cult of Franz Boas and His "Conspiracy" to Destroy the White Race


Notes


Works Cited


Index