Posters after the work of the anthropologist Rudolf Martin
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Title
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Posters after the work of the anthropologist Rudolf Martin
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Description
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The University of Bologna holds a complete collection of 24 posters created by the Swiss anthropologist Rudolf Martin, published in 1903, depicting various "racial types" from around the world. Among those on display are representations of the following groups: Eskimos from Alaska, Batak from Sumatra, and Karen from Myanmar. For decades, these materials were used in teaching and research to support the racist paradigms of that era. However, today the collection has been completely recontextualized: new information panels clarify that these items now have "exclusively historical interest" and "represent a view of human variability that has been absolutely and definitively banned by modern anthropology."
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Format
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62 x 77,5 cm
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Place
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Università di Bologna - Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali
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Alternative Title
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Wandtafeln für den Unterricht in Anthropologie, Ethnographie und Geographie
