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

Herza, Filip (Author)

History and Anthropology
Volume: 31
Issue: 3
Pages: 371-392

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1629433

DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2019.1629433

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Nationalism Science and race Human sciences World War I Physical anthropology 20th century, early 19th century Czechoslovakia

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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