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
Wiedemann, Felix
Barbosa, Thiago P.
Harris, James J.
Wirth, Aaron J.
Stanley, Matthew
Wolff, Stefan L.
Concepts
Nationalism
Physical anthropology
Science and race
World War I
Racism
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Great Britain
Brazil
Levant and Near East
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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