James Cowles Prichard's anthropology : : remaking the science of man in early nineteenth-century / / H. F. Augstein.
The Bristol doctor James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) has enjoyed a glowing reputation. Late Victorians regarded him as the founder of British anthropology and, in the twentieth century, he has been considered as a precursor of Darwin. Nowadays his name is cited mainly in context of inquiries into th...
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| Superior document: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 52 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta GA : : Rodopi,, [1999] |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 294 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Life of James Cowles Prichard
- Moral Insanity: A Medical Theory of the Corruption of Human Nature
- Physical Anthropology: Natural Similarity
- Environmentalism and Heredity: Natural Variety
- The Third Calling: Ethnology or The Unity of Mankind in Time and Space
- Linguistics and Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century: Prichard’s Moral Philology
- The Uses of Mythology for the Study of History
- Conclusion: Prichard’s After-life
- Bibliography.