Příšeří aneb antropologická věda v Německu 20. a 30. let












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            Era of Twilight, or German Anthropology in the 1920s and 1939s


            Abstrakt
            The article presents the complicateted world of German anthropology in the twenties and th

            of the 20 th century. The Denkwelt of anthropology in this period is shown as ambiguous, w
            unifying idea where more approaches to the study of race and its political application wer
            German anthropology during the Third Reich era is as a whole often considered to be an exe

            of ideologically contaminated and politically exploited science. Even common textbooks dea
            the history of anthropology support such viewpoints by bonding together racial ideologies 

            anthropology. Such oversimplifying attitudes suffer from several inaccuracies. First, the 
            of anthropological concepts in this period is to be interpreted rather in the context of t
            scientific (in particular biological) theories than of the history of ideologies. To achie

            prefer the contextual rather than the more common diachronic approach for treating this ma
            German anthropology did not consist solely of blumenbachian physical anthropology – other 
            anthropology bordering on eugenics, genetics and genealogy have to be taken into account. 

            concept” of the Weimar and Third Reich anthropological science was an extremely complicate
            cannot be reduced to the level of mere continuity of blumenbachian anthropology or even ch
            lapougian /gobineauian racial ideologies. Fourth, physical “racial anthropology” (not to b

            for racial ideologies) as such was of minor importance for the practical social arrangemen
            Reich, and its direct impact on ideology was even on decline during the third decade of th
            These four problems are illustrated on the historical background of the theories and caree

            important anthropologists of this period, Eugen Fischer and Walter Scheidt.

            Klíčová slova

            Anthropology – history of; Germany; race; Darwinism; genetics

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