The making of British anthropology, 1813-1871
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The making of British anthropology, 1813-1871
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, 18）
Pickering & Chatto, 2013
- : hbk
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Published 2016 by Routledge
Bibliography: p. 227-243
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Founding the Sciences of Man: The Observational Practices of James Cowles Prichard and William Lawrence 2 Ethnology in Transit: Informants, Questionnaires and the Formation of the Ethnological Society of London 3 Ethnology at Home: Robert Gordon Latham, Robert Knox and Competing Observational Practices 4 The Battle for Mankind: James Hunt, Thomas Huxley and the Emergence of British Anthropology 5 Synthesizing the Discipline: Charles Darwin, Edward Burnett Tylor and Developmental Anthropology in the Early 1870s Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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