Trubeta, Sevasti.

Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s-1970s). - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (353 pages) - Balkan Studies Library ; v.11 . - Balkan Studies Library .

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- A Note on Greek References and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Framing the Research: A Medical Discipline with Holistic Claims -- Section One On the Emergence of Modern Anthropology in Greece -- 1. Tracing the Intellectual and Epistemic Sources of Greek Anthropology -- 1.1 The Dispute over Evolutionism and the Alliance of the Natural Sciences and Medicine -- 1.2 Medical Geography Αs an Epistemic Source of Greek Anthropology -- 2. The Emergence of Anthropological Institutions and Professional Scholarship -- 2.1 The Adventurous Establishment of the University Chair for Physical Anthropology -- 2.2 The Chair-Holder in the Light of His Own Life Narrative -- Conclusion to Section I -- Section II Concepts of Anthropology, Institutional Trajectories and Scientific Capital -- Introduction to Section II: Paths for Passing from the Word to Discourse -- 3. Anthropology at the Museum -- 3.1 The Museum Αs a Vehicle for the Mutual Advancement of National and Professional Aims -- 3.2 The Anthropological Museum Αs National Heterotopia -- 3.3 Beyond National Limits: A Public Site to Represent Universal Human Culture -- 3.4 Authorization over Ethnology and a Colonial Dream for Athens -- 4. Anthropology at the University Chair -- 4.1 The Agenda: Teaching Anthropology in the Broad Sense -- 4.2 The Implementation: Teaching the Restricted Scope of Physical Anthropology -- 5. The Greek Anthropological Society -- 5.1 Contours of a Trajectory: Promising Outset, Inglorious End -- 5.2 The Internal Debates of the Greek Anthropological Society -- 5.3 Quantification of Humans: Criminals, Sound Children and Intelligence Tests -- 5.4 Physical Anomaly and Heredity Αs Nexus to Anthropological Discourse -- 5.5 Anthropology Αs Fetish, Professional Conformity and Opposition. 5.6 Embracing Social Anthropology in the Face of a Noble Anthropologist: Prince Peter -- 6. A 'Disinterested Science' in Wartime -- 6.1 The Neutrality of Science and the War Narrative -- 6.2 The Need for Rehabilitation and Ex Post Facto Patriotism -- 6.3 Civil War: Victims, Patriots and Badly Educated Peoples -- Excursus: Anthropological Conceptions and University Capital -- Section III Concepts of the Greek Fili: Communality in Racial and Eugenic Terms -- Introduction to Section III: Terminological Metamorphoses of Fili-Diverse Concepts of Communality -- 7. Race and Greek Ancestry -- 7.1 From Religious Universalism to Hellenism: A Bridge to Pass from Empire to Nation State -- 7.2 The Arrival of Race via the National Vehicle -- 7.3 Dilemmas of Racial Purity: From Assimilatory Hellenism to Racial Hybridization -- 7.4 To Cope with the Ottoman Legacy in the Shadow of the Nordic Racial Myth -- 7.5 Back to Racial Purity via Mixophobia: In Light of National Socialism -- 7.6 Perceptions of Racial Theories: Absorbed, Absent and Phantom Minorities -- 7.7 Aris Poulianos on the Racial Origins of the Greeks -- 8. The Eugenic Concept of Fili -- 8.1 Eugenic Representations of Hellenic Antiquity: A Matter of European Self-Consciousness -- 8.2 The Social Question and Overpopulation: Eugenics for Governing Social Stratification -- 8.3 Social Disease, the Promiscuity of the Poor and Eugenically Coloured Hygiene -- 8.4 Scholars on Eugenic Politics, Sterilization and Prenatal Health Examinations -- 8.5 Eugenic Birth Control by State Institutions -- 8.6 Greek Racial Hygienists and the Transient Appearance of Stavros Zurukzoglu -- 8.7 Beyond and against Eugenics: Still a Subjective Decision -- 8.8 Under the Banner of Reformist Eugenics: The Greek Society of Eugenics -- 8.8.1 Post-War Eugenics in Public Debates: Old Issues-New Controversies. 8.8.2 Professional Networking and Political Opportunity: A Biographical Note on Nikolaos Louros -- Excursus: Fili, Bio-Power and Authoritative Biologism -- 9. Concluding Reflections: The Hidden Legacy of Racial Nationalism -- Appendix -- Sources -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

This study explores the emergence and development of physical anthropology in the modern Greek state from the viewpoint of the proclaimed intention of its representatives to influence societal developments. This study is the first to subject racial and eugenic discourses in Greece to research.

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Eugenics -- Greece -- History.
Greece -- Race relations.
Greece -- Social life and customs.
Physical anthropology -- Greece -- History.
Racism in anthropology -- Greece -- History.


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