The making of British anthropology, 1813-1871:
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1. Verfasser: Sera-Shriar, Efram (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Pickering & Chatto 2013
Schriftenreihe:Science and culture in the nineteenth century no. 18
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Victorian anthropology has been called an 'armchair practice', distinct from the scientific discipline of the 20th century. Sera-Shriar argues that anthropology went through a process of innovation which built on bservational study and that nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of today
Founding the sciences of man : the observational practices of James Cowles Prichard and William Lawrence -- Ethnology in transit : informants, questionnaires and the formation of the Theological Society of London -- Ethnology at home : Robert Gordon Latham, Robert Knox and competing observational practices -- The battle for mankind : James Hunt, Thomas Huxley and the emergence of British anthropology -- Synthesizing the discipline : Charles Darwin, Edward Burnett Tylor and developmental anthropology in the early 1870s
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ISBN:9781781440285
178144028X
9781848933941
1848933940

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