Race And The Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology And Genetics in The Dialectic Of Volk - Couverture souple

Hutton, Christopher M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745631770 ISBN 13 : 9780745631776

Editeur : Polity Press, 2005

Synopsis

Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures involved in the study of race during the Nazi regime, and traces continuities and discontinuities between Nazism and the study of human diversity in the Western tradition. Whilst Nazi race theory is commonly associated with the idea of a superior "Aryan race" and with the idealization of the Nordic ideal of blond hair, blue eyes and a "long-skull", Nazi race theorists, in common with their colleagues outside Germany, without exception denied the existence of an Aryan race. After 1935 official publications were at pains to stress that the term "Aryan" belonged to linguistics and was not a racial category at all. Under the influence of Mendelian genetics, racial anthropologists concluded that there was no necessary link between ideal physical appearance and ideal racial character. In the course of the Third Reich, racial anthropology was marginalized in favour of the rising science of human genetics. However, racial anthropologists played a key role in the crimes of the Nazi state by defining Jews and others as racial outsiders to be excluded at all costs from the body of the German Volk.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Christopher M. Hutton is Associate Professor and Head of Department of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745631770
• ISBN 13: 9780745631776
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible