In the museum of man : race, anthropology, and empire in France, 1850-1950 / Alice L. Conklin.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

xii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Races, bones, and artifacts : a general science of man in the nineteenth century -- Toward a new synthesis : the birth of academic ethnology -- Ethnology for the masses : the making of the Musée de l'homme -- Skulls on display : antiracism, racism, and racial science -- Ethnology : a colonial form of knowledge? -- From the study to the field : ethnologists in the empire -- Ethnologists at war : Vichy and the race question.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-364) and index.