Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Races, Bones, and Artifacts: A General Science of Man in the Nineteenth Century 19
7. 2. Toward a New Synthesis: Th e Birth of Academic Ethnology 58
8. 3. Ethnology for the Masses: Th e Making of the Musée de l’Homme 100
9. 4. Skulls on Display: Antiracism, Racism, and Racial Science 145
10. 5. Ethnology: A Colonial Form of Knowledge? 189
11. 6. From the Study to the Field: Ethnologists in the Empire 236
12. 7. Ethnologists at War: Vichy and the Race Question 282
13. Epilogue 327
14. Selected Bibliography 339
15. Index 365