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- catalog abstract "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 oppos.".
- catalog contributor b11266943.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-283) and index.".
- catalog description "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 oppos.".
- catalog extent "xx, 294 p. :".
- catalog identifier "9042004045 (paper)".
- catalog identifier "9042004142 (bound)".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 52.".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 52".
- catalog isPartOf "The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi,".
- catalog subject "Anthropology Bibliography.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology history Biography.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology history".
- catalog subject "GN 21.P7 P947J 1999".
- catalog subject "GN50.6 .A84 1999".
- catalog subject "Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848.".
- catalog subject "W1 CL933 v.52 1999".
- catalog title "James Cowles Prichard's anthropology : remaking the science of man in early nineteenth-century Britain / H.F. Augstein.".
- catalog type "Bibliography. fast".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "text".