Race and Aesthetics in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789).

After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human species. Material evidence about human diversity reached Petrus Camper, comparative anatomist in the Netherlands, who engaged, among many other i...

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries Series ; v.4
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.
©1999.
Year of Publication:1999
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 pages)
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