From the 1890s to the 1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and
discipline their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some became …

Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists
have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where …

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-
scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke …

The Kulturvolker/Naturvolker distinction broke down only in the twentieth century, when a
younger generation that included Leo Frobenius attacked the universalist idealism of Adolf …

IMAGE LINK= In 1875 the Göttingen anatomist Wilhelm Krause described what was briefly
the most famous but soon became the most notorious human embryo of the last quarter of …

Die weltberühmten Sammlungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin verbinden Kunst und
Politik in ganz besonderer Weise. Wie Museumsleute vom späten Kaiserreich über die …

The great battle (Kampf)—the greatest the new century has to fight—is not a world war,
which many anticipate. One may well come—but I am thinking of an even bigger, even more …

Establishing the context within which organizers who staged spectacular popular science
exhibitions for urban middle-class audiences and the physicians as well as activists who …

In the outgoing president's annual address to members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in
1900, the civil servant and anthropologist HH Risley, 1 having dealt with the routine financial …

This dissertation examines popular anthropology during the second half of the nineteenth
century until the outbreak of the First World War and seeks to understand the social and …