The Berlin Mission Society and German linguistic roots of volkekunde: The background, training and Hamburg writings of Werner Eiselen, 1899-1924

This article presents a case for the centrality of race and racism in the training and early ethnographic writings of Werner Eiselen (1899-1977). Together with further discussion in two other articles, it demonstrates that Eiselen was not the consolidator of the British functionalist anthropological...

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Main Author: Andrew Bank
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department
Series:Kronos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902015000100007&lng=en&tlng=en