Article ID: CBB658558405

Sombre faces: Race and nation-building in the institutionalization of Czech physical anthropology (1890s–1920s) (2020)

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This paper examines the complex relationship between nation building and science of race by tracing the development of Czech physical anthropology before and after WWI. I am particularly interested in the shifting epistemologies of race as part of the political economy of knowledge and its transformations in the changing historical circumstances marked by nationalism. My argument pinpoints the ambivalence of racial theory, employed by Czech physical anthropologists, as both the precondition and product of the complex interplay between science, politics and popular culture in the early twentieth-century post-/Habsburg territories.Abbreviations: ANM (Archiv Národního muzea): Archive of the National Museum, Prague; AUK (Archiv University Karlovy): Archive of Charles University, Prague

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Authors & Contributors
Ash, Mitchell G.
dos Santos, Poliana
Evans, Andrew David
Francíková, Dáša
Knight, Nathaniel
Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne
Journals
Perspectives on Science
Acta Historica Leopoldina
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Publishers
Brandeis University
Ashgate
Palgrave Macmillan
Springer International
Open Book Publishers
Concepts
Nationalism
Science and race
Physical anthropology
World War I
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
People
Aranha, Graça
Azevedo, Aluísio
Baer, Karl Ernst von
Keith, Arthur
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Brazil
Germany
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
India
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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