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Arnold, Bettina. "The past as propaganda: Totalitarian archaeology in nazism Germany." Antiquity 64 (1990):464-478.
ABSTRACT: Particularly on the groundwork for an ethnocentric German prehistory laid by Gustav Kossinna (1858-1932)
[Keywords: anthropology, technology, nazism]

Asad, Talal. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. New York: Humanities Press, 1973.
[Keywords: Anthropology, colonialism, general, Stoler]

Banton, Michael P., and Institute Royal Anthropological. Science, Law, and Politics in the Study of Racial Relations. London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1989.
[Keywords: anthropology, general]

Berreman, Gerald. The Politics of Truth: Essays in Critical Anthropology. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1981.
[Keywords: anthropology, general, Stoler]

Bhabha, Homi. "The Other Question." Screen 24.6 (1983):18-36.
[Keywords: anthropology, general, Stoler]

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
[Keywords: anthropology, general, Stoler]

Blanckaert, Claude. "On the origins of French ethnology: William Edwards and the doctrine of race." In Bones, bodies, behavior: Essays on biological anthropology. Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1988. 18-55.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Bourdieu, Pierre. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
[Keywords: anthropology, general, Stoler]

Boyd, William C. Genetics and the Races of Man: An Introduction to Modern Physical Anthropology. Boston: Heath, 1950.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Cerroni-Long, E.L. "Benign neglect? Anthropology and the study of blacks in the United States." Journal of Black Studies 17 (1987):438-459.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Cohn, Bernard. "Past in the Present: A Museum of Mankind." In An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays. Delhi: Oxford, 1987.
[Keywords: anthropology, colonialism]

Conte, Edouard, and Cornelia Essner. La quete de la race: Une anthropologie du nazisme. Paris: Hachette, 1995.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Coronil, Fernando. "Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Non-Imperial Geohistorical Categories." Cultural Anthropology.
[Keywords: anthropology, colonialism, Stoler]

Epperson, Terrence W. "Politics of empiricism and the construction of race as an analytical category." Transforming Anthropology 5.1-2 (1994):15-19.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi. "The color of reason: The idea of 'race' in Kant's anthropology." In Anthropology and the German Enlightenment: Perspectives on humanity. Edited by Katherine M. Faull. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1995. 200-241.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Gailey, Christine Ward. "Politics, colonialism, and the mutable color of southern Pacific peoples." Transforming Anthropology 5.1-2 (1994):34-40.
[Keywords: anthropology, colonialism, south Pacific]

Garn, Stanley M. Readings on Race. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1968.
NOTES: This book is a collection of articles - a good sampling of scientific racism in 1960s anthropology.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Geertz, Hildred. The Javanese Family: A Study of Kinship and Socialization. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1961.
[Keywords: anthropology, Asia, family, Stoler]

Gordon, Deborah. "The politics of ethnographic authority: Race and writing in the ethnography of Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston." In Modernist anthropology: From fieldwork to text. Edited by Marc Manganaro. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1990. 146-162.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Haller, John, Jr. "The Physician Versus the Negro: Medical and Anthropological Concepts of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the History of Medicine XLIV.2 (1970):154-164.
[Keywords: medicine, anthropology]

Haller, J. S. "The Physician versus the Negro: Medical and Anthropological." Bulletin of the History of Medicine xliv.2 (1970):154-167.
[Keywords: anthropology, medicine]

Harrison, Ira E. "The Association of Black Anthropologists: A brief history." Anthropology Today 3.1 (1987):17-21.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Harrison, Faye V. "Persistent power of "race" in the cultural and political economy of racism." Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995):47-74.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Hinsley, Curtis M. Savages and scientists: the Smithsonian Institution and the development of American anthropology, 1846-1910. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
[Keywords: anthropology, North America, Native]

Hinsley, Curtis M. The Smithsonian and the American Indian: making a moral anthropology in Victorian America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
NOTES: Originally published: Savages and scientists, 1981. With a new foreword.
[Keywords: anthropology, North America, Native]

Hrdlicka, Ales. Practical Anthropometry. Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1939.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Hymes, Dell. Reinventing Anthropology. New York: Random House, 1969.
[Keywords: anthropology, Stoler]

Kang, L. Hyun-Yi. "The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection." Visual Anthropology Review 9.1 (1993):5-21.
[Keywords: anthropology, gender, sexuality, Stoler]

Kohn, Marek. "Science and race matters." World Press Review Dec 42.12 (1995):48.
[Keywords: anthropology]

LeClerc, Gerard. Anthropologie et Colonialisme: Essai sur l'Histoire de l'Africanisme. Paris: Fayard, 1972.
[Keywords: Africa, anthropology, colonialism, Europe, Stoler]

Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966.
[Keywords: anthropology, general, Stoler]

Lieberman, Leonard. "The Debate over Race: A Study in the Sociology of Knowledge." Phylon 29 (1968):127-41.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Lieberman, Leonard et al. "Race and Anthropology: A Core Concept without Consensus." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 20.2 (1989):67-73.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Lieberman, Leonard and Fatimah Linda C. Jackson. "Race and Three Models of Human Origin." American Anthropologist 97.2 (1995).
[Keywords: anthropology]

Lindfors, Bernth. "Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent." In Freakery: Cultural Spectacle of the Extraordinary Body. Edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 158-172.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Littlefield, Alice et al. "Redefining Race: The Potential Demise of the Concept in Physical Anthropology." Current Anthropology 23.6 (1982).
[Keywords: anthropology]

Marks, Jonathan. Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995.
[Keywords: anthropology, genetics]

Marshall, Gloria. "Racial Classifications: Popular and Scientific." In The "Racial" Economy of Science. Edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 116-127.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Mead, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Margaret. Science and the Concept of Race. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
NOTES: "An outgrowth of a symposium held at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on December 30, 1966.".
[Keywords: anthropology]

Mirza, M. N., and D. B. Dungworth. "Potential misuse of genetic analyses and the social construction of 'race' and 'ethnicity'." Oxford Journal of Archaeology 14.3 (1995):345-54.
[Keywords: anthropology, genetics]

Mitchell, Harvey, and Samuel S. Kottek. "An Eighteenth-Century Medical View of Diseases of the Jews in Northeastern France: Medical Anthropology and the Politics of Jewish Emancipation." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 67.2 (1993):248-81.
[Keywords: anthropology, antisemitism, Europe, medicine, pre-19th C]

Montagu, Ashley. Race, Science, and Humanity. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand, 1963.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Penniman, T. K. A Hundred Years of Anthropology. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1935.
NOTES: This book, written by the Curator of Oxford's Pitt-Rivers Museum, is interesting for the way the evolution of technology intersects with ideas about race.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Rainger, Ronald. "Race, politics, and science: The Anthropological Society of London in the 1860s." Victorian Studies 22 (1978):51-70.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Rich, P. "The long Victorian sunset: anthropology, eugenics and race in Britain, c1900-48." Patterns Prejudice 18.3 (1984):3-17.
[Keywords: anthropology, eugenics, Europe]

Rothfels, Nigel. "Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900." In Freakery: Cultural Spectacle of the Extraordinary Body. Edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 158-172.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Schneider, W.H. "The Rise and Fall of Sero-Anthropology." In XXX Congres International d'Histoire de la Medicine. Duseldorf. 1986. 719-27.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Schneider, William. "Blood Group Research in Great Britain, France, and the United States Between the World Wars." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98.4 (1995).
[Keywords: anthropology, biology]

Scott, David. Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on Sinhala Yaktovil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
[Keywords: anthropology, colonialism, Stoler]

Shipman, Pat. The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Silverman, Rachel Emma. Translating Race: Race Types, Blood Types, and Taxonomy in Twentieth Century Anthropology. Senior Thesis. Harvard University, 1996.[Keywords: anthropology, biology]

Spencer, Frank. A History of Physical Anthropology, 1930-1980. New York: Academic Press, 1982.
ABSTRACT: In particular, see the entry under "race concept," pp. 861-67.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Stark, Jerry. "The Social Basis of Conceptual Diversity: A Case Study of the Concept of "Race" in Physical Anthropology." Research in Sociology of Knowledge, Sciences, and Art 2 (1979):87-99.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Stauder, Jack. "The "Relevance" of Anthropology to Colonialism and Imperialism." In The "Racial" Economy of Science. Edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 408-427.
[Keywords: colonialism, anthropology]

Stocking, George W. Race, culture, and evolution: essays in the history of anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Stocking, George W., Jr. "The turn-of-the-century concept of race." Modernism/Modernity 1.1 (1994):4-16.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Swan, Donald A. "Ales Hrdlicka on Race Deterioration and Race Destruction." Mankind Quarterly 17 (1977):201-7.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Teslow, Tracy Lang. "Representing race: Artistic and scientific realism." Science as Culture 5.1 (1995):12-38.
ABSTRACT: On the sculptures of human racial types created for the 1933 exhibit 'Races of Mankind' at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
[Keywords: anthropology]

Thomas, Nicholas. Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
[Keywords: anthropology, colonialism]

Tucker, William. The Science and Politics of Racial Research. Urbana: University of ILlinois Press, 1994.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Williams, Elizabeth. The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
[Keywords: anthropology, Europe, medicine, philosophy, pre-19th]

Williams, Vernon J., Jr. Rethinking race: Franz Boas and his contemporaries. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1996.
[Keywords: anthropology]

Wolf, Eric R. "Perilous ideas: race, culture, people." Current Anthropology 35.1 (1994):1-12.
[Keywords: anthropology]

 

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