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The making of British anthropology, 1813-1871 /

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 foundati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sera-Shriar, Efram (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
Colección:Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.