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Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, anthropologists joined numerous writers and artists in founding institutions, journals, and museums that actively pushed for an antiracist science of culture, questioning pseudoscientific theories of race...

Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, anthropologists joined numerous writers and artists in founding institutions, journals, and museums that actively pushed for an antiracist science of culture, questioning pseudoscientific theories of race...

Der Kulturphilosoph Oswald Spengler gilt als der erste Universalhistoriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" (1918, 1922) machte sich die Analyse von acht Hochkulturen zur Aufgabe - neben der Antike und dem Abendland, Indien, Babylon, China, Agypten, Arabien und Mexiko - unterlie aber die Behandlung Mexikos fast ganzlich. Das bisher unveroffentlichte Erstlingswerk, "Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel" (1897) wirft ein neues Licht auf das Interesse Spenglers fur das alte Mexiko, das Land, das paradoxerweise zur Ausnahme und zum ersten Baustein seiner Kulturmorphologie...