Researches Into the Physical History of Man by Prichard, James Cowles - 1973

1973. History of Anthropology, Anthropological theory. University of Chicago Press. Very good - near fine cloth, no dust jacket 568p.

University Of Chicago Press, 1973. Hardcover. Originally published in 1813, James Cowles Prichard's Researches into the Physical History of Man was perhaps the most important anthropological work in English of the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century. Attacking the heterodox speculations of polygenist writers, Prichard defended the biblically based argument that all mankind was one species. He advanced interesting hypotheses concerning the processes of racial differentiation, and suggested the then daring possibility that the original men were black-skinned. In his extensive introductory essay, From Chronology to Ethnology: Prichard and British Anthropology, 1800-1850, George W. Stocking, Jr., uses Prichard's career to illuminate this previously neglected period--the dark age between the Victorian evolutionists and their eighteenth-century Scottish precursors. Focusing on the heritage of Christian chronological writing as a source of nineteenth-century anthropological speculation, Professor Stocking… Read More

Chicago, IL: U. Of Chicago Press, 1973. 1st ed. Hardcover. Used: Very Good. Very good, 568pp.

University of Chicago Press, 4/1/1973 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Good. 1.7323 in x 8.6614 in x 5.3543 in.

This book has been read, no wear to covers, previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "Originally published in 1813, James Cowles Prichard's Researches into the Physical History of Man was perhaps the most important anthropological work in English of the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century. Attacking the heterodox speculations of "polygenist" writers, Prichard defended the biblically based argument that all mankind was one species. He advanced interesting hypotheses concerning the processes of racial differentiation, and suggested the then daring possibility that the original men were black-skinned.In his extensive introductory essay, "From Chronology to Ethnology: Prichard and British Anthropology, 1800-1850," George W. Stocking, Jr., uses Prichard's career to illuminate this previously neglected period—the "dark age" between the Victorian evolutionists and their eighteenth-century Scottish precursors. Focusing on the heritage of Christian… Read More

Chicago 1973 University of chicago. Hardcover thick octavo. yellow cloth.568p. Text fine and clean; cover tips gently bent inward. no dj. VG. .

London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1837. Third edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Volume II only of the 1837 fourth edition. 373 pp. + ads. Illustrated with color plates. Hardcover. Missing spine, but backstrip is securely holding the text-block; 1/2 leather boards both present, but the front one is detached. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Few pencil marks in margins. Otherwise very nice contents; plates in great shape.

Chicago, IL, USA: University Of Chicago Press, 1973. Facsimile Reprint . Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. cxliv, iv, 568pp w errata and index. Goldenrod cloth w crisp red gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. From the series, Classics in Anthropology (series editor, Rodney Needham). Facsimile reprint edition of the 1813 publication of Prichard's work, edited and with an Introductory Essay by George W. Stocking Jr., a bibliography of James Cowles Prichard, and a Guide to Prichard's References.

Chicago/London:: Univ. of Chicago Pr.. Fine, clean Hardback; no DJ.. 1973. ISBN: [1813 ed. reprinted] cxliv + 568 pp.. Catalogs: ANTHROPOLOGY. Keywords: ETHNOLOGY.

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