10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYGENIST»
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The Evolution of Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and ...
Polygenist Debate (Stocking, 1968). The monogenist theorists claimed there was
a common origin for mankind and supported their position by citing biblical
parables. They, however, also began to support their claims with natural science
...
Richard R. Valencia, 2012
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Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of ...
On the contrary, the external forces which nourished a broadly polygenist point of
view were if anything intensified: the gap between civilized white and savage
black men, and the need to justify the white man's imperial dominion, were both ...
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Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960
and tho' it be a little Heterodox, I am persuaded the black and white Race Thus
we see that John Atkins was a direct contributor to eighteenth-century racial, and
specifically polygenist, discourse. Atkins (along with others I hasten to add) helps
...
Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris, 2002
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Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
underlying stable racial essences, was of course a polygenist one, traceable
directly to Nott, Edwards, Knox, and Hunt. That Broca, an avowed polygenist and
evolutionist, had such influence in anthropology in the second half of the
nineteenth ...
John P. Jackson, Nadine M. Weidman, 2004
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Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Essays and Reflections
In these broader terms, it seems appropriate to include in the polygenist tradition
not only the specific naturalistic scientific current within pre-Darwinian ethnology,
but also a broader romantic current of racial thought that tended to see races in ...
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Race, Liberalism, and Economics
Toward the end of the 1 700s, polygenist theories reappeared. Influential voices,
such as those of Voltaire and Kames, would pose their challenge primarily to
church dogma rather than to science (as would also later be the case with Nott
and ...
David Colander, Robert E. Prasch, Falguni A. Sheth, 2009
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Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, ...
He also rejected the polygenist belief in many different centers of creation,
arguing instead that all races shared a common ancestry and were capable of
improvement. Despite his emphasis on the similarities between the races,
however, ...
Jeannette Eileen Jones, Patrick B. Sharp, 2010
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Race and Racism: An Introduction
A typical polygenist scheme was that of the English physician Charles White, who
attempted to prove on anatomical grounds that four separate races exist (Account
of the Regular Gradation of Man, 1799, in Harris 1968, 89); in descending ...
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, 2006
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New History of Anthropology
He was also opposed to polygenist accounts of the origins of mankind, and kept
himself informed on Agassiz's anti-evolutionary defense. As early as 1850, he
was privately criticizing Agassiz's views on ideological as well as scientific
grounds.
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"Providence Has Freed Our Hands": Women's Missions and the ...
the polygenist theory that different races were in fact different species was
gaining ground among leading scientists (Gossett 1997), and proponents of this
theory believed missionaries were misguided in thinking that any fundamental
change ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYGENIST»
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Dumont d'Urville: France's Captain Cook
It must be said that he was not a polygenist (that is, a believer in separate human creations) like many of his contemporaries. He believed in the ... «ABC Online, Jan 15»
The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
The conflict captured the imagination of Victorian England and, by 1863, drove a wedge between the polygenist and monogenist members of ... «Smithsonian, Jul 14»
Paul Stoller or Why Anthropology Still Matters
Retzius was a polygenist whose work and that of his forbearers was foundational to scientific racism. Indeed, anthropology has changed and ... «Huffington Post, Apr 13»
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould
But they pointed out that, while Morton was inevitably a creature of his own times, he had done nothing to disguise his racial prejudices or his polygenist ... «Natural History Magazine, Mar 13»
Dr. Josef Mengele, Angel of Death and “Devotee of Darwin”
However, Darwin did challenge the polygenist viewpoint in ... origins of humanity did far more to combat polygenist racism in the long run since ... «Beliefnet.com, Dec 09»
Darwin's Sacred Cause, By Adrian Desmond and James Moore
Sound scientific arguments against the "polygenist" view, that the races were created separately, were lacking. This is where Darwin found his ... «Independent, Mar 09»
