ISBN:
9781848933941
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 255 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century 18
Series Statement:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Dissertation note:
Teilw. zugl.: Leeds, Univ., Diss., 2011
DDC:
301.094109034
Keywords:
Anthropology History 19th century
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Großbritannien
;
Anthropologie
;
Geschichte 1813-1871
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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