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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.