Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Race and Natural History 1750 1850 1st Edition by Nicolaas Rupke, Gerhard Lauer ISBN‎ 1138738425 ‎ 978-1138738423

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ISBN 10:‎ 1138738425
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-1138738423
Author: Nicolaas Rupke, Gerhard Lauer 

The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history. Moreover, Blumenbach was, and continues to be, a central figure in debates about race and racism.

How exactly did Blumenbach define race and races? What were his scientific criteria? And which cultural values did he bring to bear on his scheme? Little historical work has been done on Blumenbach’s fundamental, influential race work. From his own time till today, several different pronouncements have been made by either followers or opponents, some accusing Blumenbach of being the fountainhead of scientific racism. By contrast, across early nineteenth-century Europe, not least in France, Blumenbach was lionized as an anti-racist whose work supported the unity of humankind and the abolition of slavery.

This collection of essays considers how, with Blumenbach and those around him, the study of natural history and, by extension, that of science came to dominate the Western discourse of race.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Race and Natural History 1750 1850 1st Table of contents:

Part I Blumenbach studies

1 Introduction: A brief history of Blumenbach representation

2 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach – Online

Part II Defining human races

3 Buffon, Blumenbach, Herder, Lichtenberg, and the origins of modern anthropology

4 Climate change and creolization in French natural history, 1750–1795

5 Blumenbach’s collection of human skulls

6 Blumenbach’s theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind

7 A defense of human rights: Blumenbach on albinism

Part III Racism, anti-racism, and Eurocentricity

8 Blumenbach’s race science in the light of Christian supersessionism

9 The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl: Quantitative and aesthetic scaling of the races, 1770–1850

10 Ethnographic exploration in the Blumenbachian tradition

11 The rise of paleontology and the historicization of nature: Blumenbach and Deluc

12 The origins of scientific racism and Huxley’s rule

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