Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 303 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780472027774
Series Statement:
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Content:
A strong and thoughtful study of Afrikanistik's role in the construction of racialist knowledge in Germany.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: African Studies and the Classification of Humanity -- 1. Before the Fact: The Beginnings of African Studies on the Mission Field, 1814-87 -- 2. Beyond the Missionary Field: The Development of African Studies at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin -- 3. The Making of a "Great Africanist": Carl Meinhof in Zizow and Berlin, 1886-1909 -- 4. Anthropology and Linguistics United? Carl Meinhof, Felix von Luschan, and the Hamitic Hypothesis -- 5. Experimenting in the Metropole: The Theory and Practice of African Studies, 1908-19 -- 6. Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: African Teaching Assistants in Berlin and Hamburg, 1889-1919 -- 7. After the Colonial Moment: German Influences on South African Linguistics and Ethnology, 1920-45 -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Afrikanistik -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472117826
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pugach, Sara Africa in translation Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012 ISBN 9780472117826
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Afrikanistik
;
Linguistik
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte 1814-1945
;
Deutschland
;
Afrikanistik
;
Linguistik
;
Geschichte 1814-1945
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3415033
Author information:
Pugach, Sara
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