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Before it became established as an academic discipline, physical anthropology emerged as a contested notion of reference to the cosmological views associated with the Darwinian theory of evolution and its implementation by the natural sciences. However, its subsequent development points to a science which made holistic claims regarding its ability to explore humankind in its entirety and to influence society, with its involvement in politics, as well as racial and eugenic concepts serving as the vehicle for doing so. This book explores the emergence of physical anthropology in the modern...

In diesem Band wird das Phanomen der ethnisch ausgewiesenen Soziogenese von Minderheiten behandelt. Dieses diachronische und in verschiedenen Gesellschaftstypen auftretende Phanomen wird am Fallbeispiel der in Westthrakien beheimateten Moslemischen Minderheit untersucht. Der Prozess der Fremd- und Selbstdeutung dieser Minoritat wird rekonstruiert. Dem bestehenden Diskurs entsprechend stellen die identitatsdeutungsfahigen Varianten Religion, Nation und soziale Lage die primaren Untersuchungsindikatoren dar. Eine eingehendere und komparative Untersuchung - zum Teil durch empirische...

The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border...

This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. It examines the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and international agencies.