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The making of British anthropology, 1813 - 1871 / by Efram Sera-Shriar

Sera-Shriar, Efram

London [u.a.] : Pickering & Chatto, 2013

XI, 255 S. : Ill.

Englisch

Teilw. zugl.: Leeds, Univ., Diss., 2011

978-1-84893-394-1

978-1-78144-028-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

730987914

OCoLC: 830956756     

OCoLC: 830956756 (aus SWB)     

LB 25190      Ähnliche Literatur

GN308.3.G7

301.094109034

Basisklassifikation: 73.00 (Ethnologie: Allgemeines)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,25

*Großbritannien ; Anthropologie ; Geschichte 1813-1871 ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Victorian anthropology has been derided as an 'armchair practice', distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. But the observational practices that characterized the study of human diversity developed from the established sciences of natural history, geography and medicine. Sera-Shriar argues that anthropology at this time went through a process of innovation which built on scientifically grounded observational study. Far from being an evolutionary dead end, nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of anthropology today

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Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index