Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : Race and Natural History, 1750–1850 (Paperback)

List of figures and tables;Notes on Contributors;Preface;Acknowledgements; Part I: Blumenbach Studies 1.A Brief history of Blumenbachrepresentation (Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer) 2. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach-online (Gerhard Lauer, Wolfgang Boker and Heiko Weber); Part II: Defining Human Races 3. Buffon, Blumenbach, Herder, Lichtenberg, and the origins of modern anthropology (Carl Niekerk) 4. Climate change and creolization in French natural history, 1750?1795. (Emma Spary). 5. Blumenbach’s collection of human skulls (Wolfgang Boker) 6. Blumenbach’s theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind (Thomas Junker) 7. A defence of human rights: Blumenbach on albinism (Renato Mazzolini); Part III: Racism, anti-racism, and Eurocentricity 8. Blumenbach’s race science in the light of Christian supersessionism (Terence Keel) 9. The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl: quantitative and aesthetic scaling of the races, 1750?1850 (Robert J. Richards) 10. Ethnographic exploration in the Blumenbachian tradition (Peter Hanns Reill) 11. The rise of paleontology and the historicization of nature: Blumenbach and Deluc (John H. Zammito) 12. The origins of scientific racism and Huxley’s Rule (Nicolaas Rupke);Appendix: Biographical sketch; Index