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Author:

Kim, Linda, author.

Title:

Race experts : sculpture, anthropology, and the American public in Malvina Hoffman's (start italics) Races of mankind (end italics) / Linda Kim.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Hoffman, Malvina,--1887-1966.--Races of mankind.
Hoffman, Malvina,--1887-1966--Criticism and interpretation.
Hoffman, Malvina,--1887-1966.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Ethnology in art.
Art and anthropology--United States--History--20th century.
Art and society--United States--History--20th century.
Art and anthropology.
Art and society.
Ethnology in art.
Figure sculpture, American.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) and index.

Contents:

Racial know-how : expertise versus common sense -- Mediations : art in the natural history museum -- Racial portraiture : between typologies and commonsense -- Racial homelands : popular geography and local races -- Micro-expertise : passing for Indian, passing for white.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

ISBN:

149620185X
9781496201850

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1019833377

LCCN:

2017044555

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)