Victorian AnthropologyIn 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. |
Contents
A Precipice in Time | 1 |
The Progress of Civilization in the Enlightenment | 10 |
The History of Culture in Germany | 20 |
The Problem of Civilization in England | 30 |
Civilization as an Issue of Attitude and Method | 36 |
Ethnology on the Eve of Evolution 18301858 | 46 |
The History of Civilization Before the Origin | 110 |
The Darwinian Revolution and the Evolution | 144 |
The Comparative Method and the Antiquity of Man | 164 |
Continuity and Disjuncture in Classical Evolutionism | 179 |
Victorian Cultural Ideology and the Image | 186 |
Evolutionary Ideas and Anthropological | 238 |
The Extinction of Paleolithic Man | 274 |
The Historical Significance | 284 |
Notes | 331 |
A Note on Manuscript Sources | 356 |
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Aborigines Anth argued argument assumptions biblical biological Britain British Association Buckle century character Christian civilization classical evolutionism colonial comparative method comparative philology context contrast critical Crystal Palace cultural Darwin Darwinian revolution developmental E. B. Tylor early emergence England ethnographic ethnological European evidence evolution evolutionary exogamy fact Fijian forms framework Galton German groups Henry Maine human Huxley ical idea influence inquiry institutions intellectual issues J. S. Mill kinship Lane Fox language later London Lubbock Maine Maine's mankind marriage McLennan methodological modern moral Müller natural origin phenomena physical physical anthropology Pitt Rivers political polygenist Prichard Prichardian primitive principles problem progress race racial Radcliffe-Brown relation religion religious savage savagery scientific seems sexual social anthropology social evolutionism Social Statics society sociocultural evolution sociocultural evolutionism specific Spencer Stocking suggested systematic Tasmanians theory thought tion tradition Tylor unity utilitarian Victorian viewpoint Wallace