Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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What Is the Difference Between Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology?
In the german tradition, there is a distinction between cultural anthropology and physical anthropology. So you see this almost kind of antrapenereal aspect when you look at some of the things happening with the berlin society for anthropology in some of their journals. Andgustav frich is a case in point, where the anthropologists in germany really want to demonstrate the physical difference among human subjects. But knowing that travel was not possible, unnecessarily, for all the anthropologists that might want to study these human differences, people like gustavritch would develop techniques and actually market camera kits that they had designed to best capture human subjects and photograph them. This was kind of an amazing
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