ABSTRACT
This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part I|69 pages
The Genealogy of Race in the Eighteenth Century
chapter 3|12 pages
The Creation of the “Negro” at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
chapter 4|8 pages
Panel and Sequence
part II|98 pages
The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Racial Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
chapter 11|12 pages
The Anthropological Society of Tokyo and the Ainu
part III|108 pages
The Transcription and Exhibition of Race