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James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology
Hannah Franziska Augstein
其他書名
Remaking the Science of Man in Early Nineteenth-century Britain
出版Rodopi, 1999
主題Medical / HistoryScience / HistorySocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN97890420040479042004045
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=C6rNBkgDmFQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 the rise of racial theories.
Prichard's own theoretical goal was simple: the son of Quaker parents, he attempted to establish that the Bible provided a correct account of the earliest history of humankind; above all it was his aim to prove once and for all the doctrine of monogenesis: the unitary origins of mankind. He single-handedly charted the waters of the pre-Victorian human sciences. Philology, anthropology, mythology, Biblical criticism, the philosophy of the human mind, comparative anatomy, physiology, and practical medicine - Prichard mastered subjects so diverse that his learning may be called truly universal. His views have often been misrepresented, however, and his opposition to racial thinking in particular has been underestimated. This book, the first study dedicated exclusively to Prichard, explores his notions of man's place in nature and puts them in the context of contemporary European learning.