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Henri Hubert, racial science and political myth
Author(s) -
Strenski Ivan
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198710)23:4<353::aid-jhbs2300230405>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - mythology , politics , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , ethnography , sociology , race (biology) , racism , anthropology , history , gender studies , aesthetics , classics , political science , philosophy , art , law , visual arts
Henri Hubert developed early Durkheimian critiques of racial sciences such as an throposociology from his perspective as an archeologist, historian, and ethnographer of primitive European religions. His major works on the “primitive” Celts and Germans continue these critiques of racism. But Hubert also engaged in the political mythologizing of French national identity by trading in the republican myth of “celtisme.”