The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871

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The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871 is written by Efram Sera-Shriar and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822966484 (ISBN 10) and 9780822966487 (ISBN 13).

Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. But the observational practices that characterized the study of human diversity developed from the established sciences of natural history, geography and medicine. Sera-Shriar argues that anthropology at this time went through a process of innovation which built on scientifically grounded observational study. Far from being an evolutionary dead end, nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of anthropology today.