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Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Date:
2007
Notes:
Plates, pages 323-370.
Contents:
Races, species and peoples -- Fetishes and skulls -- The visions of Serrurier and others -- The scholarly practice of the National Ethnographic Museum -- "Evolutionism" and "the Negro" -- Sasse's cranial sutures -- Serrurier's "Anthropological sciences" -- Bastian and the museum as an ethnological storehouse -- An appeal to the emotions -- The problematic aesthetics of the minkisi -- "Uncivilized and the less civilized peoples" -- Conclusion