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The making of British anthropology, 1813-1871 /
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 med...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
no. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822981732 0822981734 |