| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 18
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 foundations for the field-based science of today. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Anthropology. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sera-Shriar, Efram. Making of British anthropology, 1813-1871 9781848933941 (OCoLC)835973743 |
| ISBN |
9781781440285 (electronic book) |
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178144028X (electronic book) |
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9781848933941 |
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1848933940 |
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