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Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. .(Book Review)

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology  |  Date: 5/1/2003  |  Author: Lumsden, David Paul

ANDREW ZIMMERMAN, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001, 364 p.

Zimmerman's sober title masks a sobering indictment of Berlin anthropology as it was performed not just under or during, but rather in direct collaboration with, "two imperialist periods" (243), i.e., the colonialist expansion of Imperial Germany from the 1870s to the early 20th century and, more briefly, the period of "Nazi expansionism" (327).

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