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Victorian anthropology

By: Stocking, George W.
Contributor(s): Darby, Robert.
Publisher: New York : The Free Press, 1991Description: xvii, 429 p. ; ill 23 cm.ISBN: 9780029315514.Subject(s): Anthropology History | Ethnology | Great Britain | Social evolution | Popular culture | American Indians | Associationism | British Empire | Catholicism | Cultural idealism | Darwinian method | Diffusionism | Ethnocentrism | Evolutionism | French progressivist | German thought | Human nature | Industrial revolution | London | Monogemism | Natural theology | Polygemism | Primitive society | Racialism | Savage | Sociocultural evolution | Totemism | Village community | MigrationDDC classification: 306.0941 Summary: In this fascinating and erudite work, George Stocking, America's most renowned historian of anthropology, probes the Victorian origins of contemporary thought on human social and cultural evolution. George Stocking examines the portrayal of primitive peoples by Victorian travellers and missionaries. He shows how their attitudes towards the dark-skinned savages corresponded to their view of the proletarian masses produced by the Industrial Revolution.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this fascinating and erudite work, George Stocking, America's most renowned historian of anthropology, probes the Victorian origins of contemporary thought on human social and cultural evolution. George Stocking examines the portrayal of primitive peoples by Victorian travellers and missionaries. He shows how their attitudes towards the dark-skinned savages corresponded to their view of the proletarian masses produced by the Industrial Revolution.

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