Objects of Culture : Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany

In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums. Penny shows that German ethnologists were not driven by imperialist desires or an interest in legitimating putative biological or racial hierarchies. Overwhelmingly antiracist, they aspired to generate theories about the essential nature of human beings through their museums' collections. They gained support in their efforts from boosters who were enticed by participating in this international science and who used it to promote the cosmopolitan character of their cities and themselves. But these cosmopolitan ideals were eventually overshadowed by the scientists' more modern, professional, and materialist concerns, which dramatically altered the science and its goals. By clarifying German ethnologists' aspirations and focusing on the market and conflicting interest groups, Penny makes important contributions to German history, the history of science, and museum studies. George W. Stocking By examining the history of ethnographic museums in Germany with attention to the specificity of local institutional processes, at the same time placing them in an international market framework and the role of conflicting interest groups and audiences, Penny offers an historically grounded contrast to what are by now the somewhat predictable tendencies of post-colonial critical literature. 00000___624261bff68e9f1596ccd1dd1148b002......Page 1 00001___cdc36123c5d13e86dcd4319cb58fab64......Page 2 00002___77df5646d3c7b6444c3b4063bfc3c268......Page 3 00003___b4aa49dd4b100321595f387250e5dea3......Page 4 00004___d103c9a7ecc8af3e43d518a25c64f428......Page 5 00005___f3c14eca84620adc43caec793c16488f......Page 6 00006___3f1d1603080aea9cf2222f01eb4f2e22......Page 7 00007___8ab126e499eb1f44b1215bb5b15a8f3a......Page 8 00008___46f73381d9de19a37e91b136761c65dc......Page 9 00009___2e850b6e575cdcddae279b95fd873d55......Page 10 00010___5be8a3117af3e27527511915425f3dfb......Page 11 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00281___14dd01c3966a35ac4fa2a7df703574a7......Page 282 00282___7b78773a870de9d78b494f73ffc5e909......Page 283 00283___5081b50eb62923445021511c3df32117......Page 284 00284___e99057f17543a79368c110947366e1ce......Page 285 00285___e841f5b887ade16fab152042679a4f6e......Page 286 00286___b6c015bd65942b64d4ba034ec2d30121......Page 287 00287___258f7a58c1231dea2ae388f3827c3eda......Page 288 00288___0e729d4486c144c58029b7da7b7c2b3a......Page 289 00289___34ee19f718edde22ffd1ee76153d0028......Page 290 00290___4170e02a6c858a3e7adf13e242714427......Page 291 00291___7f7a0f0f7b79c6dda78b79dc0bdd2429......Page 292 00292___9c607fd9d23275d2e84d5128b723957f......Page 293 00293___787123644ebfb6f67f637dd8e81d71f5......Page 294 00294___371b70f1d4fa2158b933247926c0f1d6......Page 295 00295___3485f81c76995f90f7323a73e850dbde......Page 296 Annotation In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums. Penny shows that German ethnologists were not driven by imperialist desires or an interest in legitimating putative biological or racial hierarchies. Overwhelmingly antiracist, they aspired to generate theories about the essential nature of human beings through their museums' collections. They gained support in their efforts from boosters who were enticed by participating in this international science and who used it to promote the cosmopolitan character of their cities and themselves. But these cosmopolitan ideals were eventually overshadowed by the scientists' more modern, professional, and materialist concerns, which dramatically altered the science and its goals. By clarifying German ethnologists' aspirations and focusing on the market and conflicting interest groups, Penny makes important contributions to German history, the history of science, and museum studies "In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ehtnographic museums. Penny shows that German ethnologists were not simply driven by imperialist desires or an interest in legitimating putative biological or racial hierarchies. Overwhelmingly anti-racist, they aspired to generate theories about the essential nature of human beings through their museums' collections. They gained support in their efforts from boosters who were enticed by participating in this international science and who used it to promotoe the cosmopolitan character of their cities and themselves. But these cosmopolitan ideals were eventually overshadowed by the scientists' more modern, professional, and materialist concerns, which dramatically altered the science and its goals."-- Back cover When Germany was founded in 1871 it possessed only scattered ethnographic collections, leftovers from princely treasure houses, forgotten items in curiosity cabinets, and the ill-gotten gains of adventurers. A study which explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums