THE BERLIN MISSION SOCIETY AND GERMAN LINGUISTIC ROOTS OF VOLKEKUNDE: THE BACKGROUND, TRAINING AND HAMBURG WRITINGS OF WERNER EISELEN, 1899-1924

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

bat 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 tradition in South Africa nor a strong affilia

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