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Scholarship and the ladder of "civilization" : Serrurier and Bastian

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Author:
Willink, Joost  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Serrurier, L (Lindor) 1846-1901  Search this
Bastian, Adolf 1826-1905  Search this
Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Netherlands)  Search this
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
Topic:
Ethnology--Research  Search this
Physical anthropology--Research  Search this
Call number:
GN36.N4 W555 2007
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_910394