H Glenn Penny
Biographic Data
| ID | 159077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Glenn Penny |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Penny |
| SIGNATURE | PENNY H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-2715-3099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fugitive knowledge and (un)salvaged anthropologists
Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin by Bettina Stoetzer
Book Review: Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin by Bettina Stoetzer
Lessons from the Southern German Borderlands
This essay engages the borderlands region joining contemporary Austria, Germany, and Switzerland as a ‘central periphery’ in the heart of Europe. As a region in which multiple and varied notions of belonging have long stretched across the borders that animate our modern political maps, the most important borders shaping the inhabitants’ sense of belonging were often in their heads. By drawing on five eclectic museums in the region, where these no…
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico
Journal Article Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico. Get access Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 239. Cloth $27.50. H. Glenn Penny H. Glenn Penny University of California, Los Angeles, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology
Benin Bronzes: Colonial Questions
This chapter describes Felix von Luschan's bid on some African ivories from the Kingdom of Benin. It argues that he had already made offers on a few objects during a recent visit to London, but he was still keen to get a particular ivory cup with a cover. The chapter recalls the bronze and ivory artifacts that British troops seized during a punitive expedition to the kingdom of Benin. Following Benin City's devastation, rumors circulated througho…
In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology
"The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the largest and most important anthropological museums in the world. Housing over 500,000 objects from non-western cultures assembled since the mid-nineteenth century, the museum's collection was assembled by men who were galvanized by the ambitious vision of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). Humboldt saw the multiplicity of human cultures as variations on a common theme and believed that natural scienc…
Die Ökonomie der Anderen: Der Kapitalismus der Ethnologen—eine transnationale Wissensgeschichte seit 1880
One of the current arguments circulating around Berlin’s Humboldt Forum over the repatriation of non-European ethnographic objects is that European and particularly German collectors consistently took advantage of people they encountered while working for science and ostensibly for the greater good. As Timor Luks notes at the end of his book, it is stunning how easily academics, politicians and pundits have instrumentalized that argument for thei…
Auswanderung als nationalistisches Projekt: "Deutschtum" und Kolonialdiskurse im südlichen Brasilien (1824-1941)
This smart book deserves a wide readership. It contains much of value for scholars interested in immigration to Latin America, the challenges of dealing with hyphenated citizens, and the persistence of multilingual spaces. Indeed, Frederik Schulze challenges us to rethink Latin Americans' relations with foreign actors.At the heart of his study are the German Brazilians who by the 1930s numbered in the hundreds of thousands, if we count only the i…
From Migrant Knowledge to Fugitive Knowledge: German Migrants and Knowledge Production in Guatemala, 1880s –1945
German migration to Guatemala was closely tied to the rise of coffee capitalism. Yet German migrants also built businesses, established families, founded schools, interacted with other Guatemalans, and produced a great deal of local knowledge that fed German, Guatemalan, and international science. That knowledge also shaped businesses, helped transform Guatemalan landscapes, and affected children’s worldviews. This essay highlights those contribu…
Material Connections: German Schools, Things, and Soft Power in Argentina and Chile from the 1880s through the Interwar Period
From the late nineteenth century through the interwar period, the production and consumption of German things played critical roles in delineating and connecting a wide variety of German places in Latin America. Such places became ubiquitous in Chile and Argentina. They flourished because there was ample room in the German imagination for the multiplicity of German places and the cultural hybridity that accompanied them to extend beyond Imperial …
Fellow Tribesmen: The Image of Native Americans, National Identity and Nazi Ideology in Germany
When National Socialists harnessed American Indians for ideological and practical purposes, they drew on a German tradition that stretched back into the romantic era. According to Frank Usbeck, however, their actions constituted a ‘distinctive and particularly bizarre phase in the longer tradition of German perceptions of (Native) Americans’ (p. 214). There were many contradictions in their appropriations: Nazi propagandists drew on the history a…
Germans Abroad: Respatializing Historical Narrative
The introductory essay engages with recent work on the myriad groups of German speakers that flourished outside the borders of the German nation-state between the 1880s and the 1930s. Since the end of the Second World War, scholars have treated the notion of the Auslandsdeutsche (German expatriates) with considerable ideological suspicion. This essay, however, argues that a German history that moves beyond those prejudices and integrates these co…
Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914
Journal Article Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914 Get access Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914 . By Stefan Manz . New York : Routledge , 2014 . 376 pp. £85.00 (hardback). H. Glenn Penny H. Glenn Penny University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 297–299, https://doi.org/10.10…
The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade, 1660–1815 , by Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade, 1660-1815, by Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl, translated by Cynthia Klohr. New York, Berghahn Books, 2015. xii, 313 pp. $120.00 US (cloth). This well-researched text has much to teach us about the global systems of trade that developed around London during the early modern period, especially German merchants' impressive roles in those systems. Schulte Beerbuhl came to…
Historiographies in Dialogue: Beyond the Categories of Germans and Brazilians
This essay underscores the many benefits that scholars can glean by bringing the histories and historiographies of Brazil and Germany into dialogue. It argues that such dialogues can help to decentre the nation state in our narratives of German history; they allow us to identify many parallels in German histories that took place in multiple places around the world; and they afford us a better understanding of the roles that many Germans' multiple…
Ambiguities, Fractures and Myopic Histories: Recent work on German Minorities in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Germans have long been part of the multi-ethnic and multicultural histories that shaped the territory between the Oder and the Urals. The presence of Germans, however, was seldom the same as ‘a German presence’ nor has it always been clear who the ‘Germans’ might be, or might have been. During the medieval period, for example, as Roger Bartlett and Karen Schönwälder reminded us more than a decade ago, a German in eastern Europe ‘might be one who …
Latin American Connections: Recent Work on German Interactions with Latin America
German interactions with Latin America have a long history. Indeed, early modern historians have demonstrated that people from German-speaking central Europe took part in all aspects of the European conquest of Central and South America. They have shown that these people were critical to mining operations and publishing in sixteenth-century Mexico; they have found them among Portuguese and Spanish sailors and soldiers almost everywhere; and they …
The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective
Notes1 See, for example, Gerhard L. Weinberg, ed., Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler (New York: Enigma Books, 2003).2 David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World (New York: Oxford, 1992).3 Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).4 A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest…
Chevron, Marie-France: Anpassung und Entwicklung in Evolution und Kulturwandel. Erkenntnisse aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte für die Forschung der Gegenwart und eine Erinnerung an das Werk A. Bastians
Anthropos , Seite 585 - 586
Atlantic Transfers: Recent Work on the German-American Exchange
Journal Article Atlantic Transfers: Recent Work on the German-American Exchange Get access Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters. Edited by Thomas Adam and Ruth V. Gross. 2006. College Station: Texas A & M University Press.Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America since 1776. Edited by E. David Barclay and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt. 1997. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.Deutschland und die USA in der Inter…
Red Power: Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich and Indian Activist Networks in East and West Germany
A curious photograph appeared in 1976 in the East-German newspaper Junge Welt (Fig. 1). Two well-known members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Dennis Banks and Vernon Bellecourt, were shown together with an elderly German woman, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, at her home in East Berlin. This photo, like so many of the photos of Indians in unexpected places, always seems to amuse people, leading them to ask with a snigger why the Indians were …
The Fate of the Nineteenth Century in German Historiography
German History from the Margins
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Germany's Colonial Pasts
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Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology. Drawing on the most recent work on the history of the discipline, the contributors rethink the historical and cultural connections between German anthropology, colonialism, and race. By showing that German intellectual traditions differed markedly from those of Western Europe, they challenge the prevalent assumption that Europeans…
The Politics of Anthropology in the Age of Empire: German Colonists, Brazilian Indians, and the Case of Alberto Vojtech Fric
On 14 September 1908, at the Sixteenth International Congress of Americanists in Vienna, Alberto Vojtěch FričAlberto Vojtěch Frič used several variations of his name in his publications and correspondence, including Alberto Frič, Albert Frič, Adalbert Frič, and Vojtěch Frič. who had been sent to Brazil in 1906 to collect ethnographica for German museums, threw the otherwise orderly scientific proceedings into turmoil. During his presentation on t…
German History from the Margins
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Latin American Connections: Recent Work on German Interactions with Latin America
German interactions with Latin America have a long history. Indeed, early modern historians have demonstrated that people from German-speaking central Europe took part in all aspects of the European conquest of Central and South America. They have shown that these people were critical to mining operations and publishing in sixteenth-century Mexico; they have found them among Portuguese and Spanish sailors and soldiers almost everywhere; and they …
Germans Abroad: Respatializing Historical Narrative
The introductory essay engages with recent work on the myriad groups of German speakers that flourished outside the borders of the German nation-state between the 1880s and the 1930s. Since the end of the Second World War, scholars have treated the notion of the Auslandsdeutsche (German expatriates) with considerable ideological suspicion. This essay, however, argues that a German history that moves beyond those prejudices and integrates these co…
The Civic Uses of Science: Ethnology and Civil Society in Imperial Germany
In an effort to move us toward a better understanding of the relationship between science and civil society in imperial Germany, this essay explores the creation and development of ethnographic museums in Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich. German ethnology became a locus of institution building during the imperial period, and an analysis of the actions and rhetoric surrounding these museums shows that the central developments in each instituti…
Elusive Authenticity: The Quest for the Authentic Indian in German Public Culture
The German fascination with the American Indian is legion, enduring, and much more than a current, post-modern enchantment with 'the primitive.' Indeed, the special and continuing relationship between Germans and Indians is well known, and in recent years it has received considerable scholarly attention. One striking aspect of this relationship is the seemingly endless effort by scholars, museum curators, pedagogues, and dilettantes of all fashio…
Historiographies in Dialogue: Beyond the Categories of Germans and Brazilians
This essay underscores the many benefits that scholars can glean by bringing the histories and historiographies of Brazil and Germany into dialogue. It argues that such dialogues can help to decentre the nation state in our narratives of German history; they allow us to identify many parallels in German histories that took place in multiple places around the world; and they afford us a better understanding of the roles that many Germans' multiple…
From Migrant Knowledge to Fugitive Knowledge: German Migrants and Knowledge Production in Guatemala, 1880s –1945
German migration to Guatemala was closely tied to the rise of coffee capitalism. Yet German migrants also built businesses, established families, founded schools, interacted with other Guatemalans, and produced a great deal of local knowledge that fed German, Guatemalan, and international science. That knowledge also shaped businesses, helped transform Guatemalan landscapes, and affected children’s worldviews. This essay highlights those contribu…
Material Connections: German Schools, Things, and Soft Power in Argentina and Chile from the 1880s through the Interwar Period
From the late nineteenth century through the interwar period, the production and consumption of German things played critical roles in delineating and connecting a wide variety of German places in Latin America. Such places became ubiquitous in Chile and Argentina. They flourished because there was ample room in the German imagination for the multiplicity of German places and the cultural hybridity that accompanied them to extend beyond Imperial …
The Fate of the Nineteenth Century in German Historiography
Germany's Colonial Pasts
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The Museum für Deutsche Geschichte and German National Identity
Not far from the Brandenburger Tor on Unter den Linden, visitors to the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte (MfDG) entered Berlin's most beautiful Baroque building. Built by Europe's finest architects under the auspices of Prussia's Kings, the Zeughaus once held a collection of the nation's weapons and Prussia's trophies of war. But since its restoration in the 1950s, this eighteenth-century edifice's long sculptured hallways and high-ceilinged rooms …
Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany
In the late 19th 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 study, the author explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums. Penny shows that German ethnologists were not driven by imp…
The Civic Uses of Science: Ethnology and Civil Society in Imperial Germany
In an effort to move us toward a better understanding of the relationship between science and civil society in imperial Germany, this essay explores the creation and development of ethnographic museums in Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich. German ethnology became a locus of institution building during the imperial period, and an analysis of the actions and rhetoric surrounding these museums shows that the central developments in each instituti…
Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology. Drawing on the most recent work on the history of the discipline, the contributors rethink the historical and cultural connections between German anthropology, colonialism, and race. By showing that German intellectual traditions differed markedly from those of Western Europe, they challenge the prevalent assumption that Europeans…
The Politics of Anthropology in the Age of Empire: German Colonists, Brazilian Indians, and the Case of Alberto Vojtech Fric
On 14 September 1908, at the Sixteenth International Congress of Americanists in Vienna, Alberto Vojtěch FričAlberto Vojtěch Frič used several variations of his name in his publications and correspondence, including Alberto Frič, Albert Frič, Adalbert Frič, and Vojtěch Frič. who had been sent to Brazil in 1906 to collect ethnographica for German museums, threw the otherwise orderly scientific proceedings into turmoil. During his presentation on t…
Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas
This is a fascinating book, partly because of the excellent contributions, and partly because of the ways in which the editors have chosen to engage the topic and organize their volume. Marchand and Lindenfeld open the collection with a loaded question: Was there a German fin de siècle ? Did Germans, in other words, share the kinds of reactions to modernity that have so fascinated historians of Austria and France? Their answer is yes and no. Many…
Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making , edited by Benoît de L’Estoile, Frederico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud
Michael Kraus,Bildungsbürger imUrwald: Die deutsche ethnologische Amazonasforschung (1884-1929)
Elusive Authenticity: The Quest for the Authentic Indian in German Public Culture
The German fascination with the American Indian is legion, enduring, and much more than a current, post-modern enchantment with 'the primitive.' Indeed, the special and continuing relationship between Germans and Indians is well known, and in recent years it has received considerable scholarly attention. One striking aspect of this relationship is the seemingly endless effort by scholars, museum curators, pedagogues, and dilettantes of all fashio…
German History from the Margins
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Germany's Colonial Pasts
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Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture
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Atlantic Transfers: Recent Work on the German-American Exchange
Journal Article Atlantic Transfers: Recent Work on the German-American Exchange Get access Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters. Edited by Thomas Adam and Ruth V. Gross. 2006. College Station: Texas A & M University Press.Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America since 1776. Edited by E. David Barclay and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt. 1997. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.Deutschland und die USA in der Inter…
Red Power: Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich and Indian Activist Networks in East and West Germany
A curious photograph appeared in 1976 in the East-German newspaper Junge Welt (Fig. 1). Two well-known members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Dennis Banks and Vernon Bellecourt, were shown together with an elderly German woman, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, at her home in East Berlin. This photo, like so many of the photos of Indians in unexpected places, always seems to amuse people, leading them to ask with a snigger why the Indians were …
The Fate of the Nineteenth Century in German Historiography
Chevron, Marie-France: Anpassung und Entwicklung in Evolution und Kulturwandel. Erkenntnisse aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte für die Forschung der Gegenwart und eine Erinnerung an das Werk A. Bastians
Anthropos , Seite 585 - 586
Latin American Connections: Recent Work on German Interactions with Latin America
German interactions with Latin America have a long history. Indeed, early modern historians have demonstrated that people from German-speaking central Europe took part in all aspects of the European conquest of Central and South America. They have shown that these people were critical to mining operations and publishing in sixteenth-century Mexico; they have found them among Portuguese and Spanish sailors and soldiers almost everywhere; and they …
The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective
Notes1 See, for example, Gerhard L. Weinberg, ed., Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler (New York: Enigma Books, 2003).2 David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World (New York: Oxford, 1992).3 Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).4 A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest…
Ambiguities, Fractures and Myopic Histories: Recent work on German Minorities in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Germans have long been part of the multi-ethnic and multicultural histories that shaped the territory between the Oder and the Urals. The presence of Germans, however, was seldom the same as ‘a German presence’ nor has it always been clear who the ‘Germans’ might be, or might have been. During the medieval period, for example, as Roger Bartlett and Karen Schönwälder reminded us more than a decade ago, a German in eastern Europe ‘might be one who …
Germans Abroad: Respatializing Historical Narrative
The introductory essay engages with recent work on the myriad groups of German speakers that flourished outside the borders of the German nation-state between the 1880s and the 1930s. Since the end of the Second World War, scholars have treated the notion of the Auslandsdeutsche (German expatriates) with considerable ideological suspicion. This essay, however, argues that a German history that moves beyond those prejudices and integrates these co…
Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914
Journal Article Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914 Get access Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914 . By Stefan Manz . New York : Routledge , 2014 . 376 pp. £85.00 (hardback). H. Glenn Penny H. Glenn Penny University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 297–299, https://doi.org/10.10…
The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade, 1660–1815 , by Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade, 1660-1815, by Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl, translated by Cynthia Klohr. New York, Berghahn Books, 2015. xii, 313 pp. $120.00 US (cloth). This well-researched text has much to teach us about the global systems of trade that developed around London during the early modern period, especially German merchants' impressive roles in those systems. Schulte Beerbuhl came to…
Historiographies in Dialogue: Beyond the Categories of Germans and Brazilians
This essay underscores the many benefits that scholars can glean by bringing the histories and historiographies of Brazil and Germany into dialogue. It argues that such dialogues can help to decentre the nation state in our narratives of German history; they allow us to identify many parallels in German histories that took place in multiple places around the world; and they afford us a better understanding of the roles that many Germans' multiple…
Fellow Tribesmen: The Image of Native Americans, National Identity and Nazi Ideology in Germany
When National Socialists harnessed American Indians for ideological and practical purposes, they drew on a German tradition that stretched back into the romantic era. According to Frank Usbeck, however, their actions constituted a ‘distinctive and particularly bizarre phase in the longer tradition of German perceptions of (Native) Americans’ (p. 214). There were many contradictions in their appropriations: Nazi propagandists drew on the history a…
From Migrant Knowledge to Fugitive Knowledge: German Migrants and Knowledge Production in Guatemala, 1880s –1945
German migration to Guatemala was closely tied to the rise of coffee capitalism. Yet German migrants also built businesses, established families, founded schools, interacted with other Guatemalans, and produced a great deal of local knowledge that fed German, Guatemalan, and international science. That knowledge also shaped businesses, helped transform Guatemalan landscapes, and affected children’s worldviews. This essay highlights those contribu…
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