Constructing race and rehearsing imperialism : German anthropologies of the Philippines, 1859 to 1885

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  • dc.contributor.author Weston, Nathaniel Parker
  • dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:54:23Z
  • dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:54:23Z
  • dc.date.issued 2020
  • dc.date.modified 2020-10-28T17:57:23Z
  • dc.description.abstract This article argues that anthropology created in precolonial Germany rehearsed and reinforced imperialism by constructing portraits of colonized Filipinos as racially inferior. Before the unification of Imperial Germany in 1871 and up to its acquisition of overseas colonies in 1884, several German anthropologists traveled through colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, amassing artifacts, human remains, and photographs that were essential for their studies. They subsequently used these sources to assemble racial categories asserting that colonized peoples lacked civilization. This article examines the example of German anthropologies of the Philippines under Spanish rule during the second half of the nineteenth century. German participation in colonial projects, particularly those involving racial ideologies, therefore lasted for a longer duration than the period in which Imperial Germany ruled directly over territories abroad.
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  • dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Entremons/article/view/375465
  • dc.identifier 2014-5217
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62523
  • dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • dc.relation.haspart Entremons: UPF Journal of World History, 2020, 2020: Núm. 11, p. 37-68
  • dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Entremons/article/view/375465/468900
  • dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
  • dc.subject.other Germany; anthropology; imperialism; race; the Philippines; Spain
  • dc.title Constructing race and rehearsing imperialism : German anthropologies of the Philippines, 1859 to 1885
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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