Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crystal Palace Company published a series of official handbooks in 1854 for displays in its Sydenham pleasure park. The "Natural History Court" had two organising themes. First, ethnology was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups. (Sometimes, they also included living visitors from those groups). Latham's guide emphasises what visitors could not see displayed, such as language and religious practices. He also shows his discipline's obsession with rankings - one culture against another - together with the cultural biases inherent in their work. Second, zoology and botany were represented by regional displays. Forbes was a naturalist in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt. This catalogue mentions most of the specimens displayed. It also stresses fundamental principles of biogeography. Written five years before Darwin's Origin of Species, Forbes' essay nicely shows how naturalists theorized before evolutionary ideas took hold.
Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described written by Edward Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described The Natural History, which forms the subject of this Handbook, is of a somewhat more comprehensive kind than the current meaning of the words would suggest. It comprises not only Botany and Zoology proper, but also Ethnology, or, the Science of Human Races. Ethnology, from the greater novelty of the subject and its comparative importance, occupies the first and larger part of this little volume. The second part is, however, absolutely necessary to the full illustration of the first; and in order that each may reflect due light upon the other, the reader will do well, after going through the notice of each Ethnological group, to refer to the corresponding description in the Botanical and Zoological portion. In the heading of each group is indicated the page for reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Crystal Palace Sydenham Natural History Department Ethnological Collection A list of desiderata written by William THOMSON (Curator of the Museums of Anatomy and Natural History, King's College, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Making of British Anthropology 1813 1871 written by Efram Sera-Shriar and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by John van Wyhe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia). it was these travels which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evolution occurs through natural selection. Beautifully written, the letters are filled with lavish descriptions of the remote regions he explored, the peoples, and fascinating details of the many new species of mammals, birds, and insects he discovered during his time there. John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker present new transcriptions of each of the letters, including recently discovered letters that shed light on the voyage and on questions such as Wallace's reluctance to publish on evolution, and why he famously chose to write to Darwin rather than to send his work to a journal directly. A revised account of Wallace's itinerary based on new research by the editors forms part of an introduction that sets the context of the voyage, and the volume includes full notes to all letters. Together the letters form a remarkable and vivid document of one of the most important journeys of the 19th century by a great Victorian naturalist.
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Download or read book The Museum on the Roof of the World written by Clare Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
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