Victorian AnthropologyStocking 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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Contents
A Precipice in Time | 3 |
The History of Civilization Before the Origin | 110 |
The Darwinian Revolution and the Evolution | 144 |
Tracing Up the Origin of Civilization | 150 |
The Natural Development of Spiritual Culture | 156 |
The Comparative Method and the Antiquity of Man | 164 |
Continuity and Disjuncture in Classical Evolutionisrn | 179 |
Victorian Cultural Ideology and the Image | 186 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Victorian Anthropology |
| Author | George Stocking |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0029315514, 9780029315514 |
| Length | 429 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Popular Culture |
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