H Glenn Penny: 2 books
Kindred by Choice
Germans and American Indians since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for...
Objects of Culture
Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of...