<b>Efram Sera-Shriar </b>is a historical anthropologist who specializes in Victorian science. He is associate professor in English studies at the University of Copenhagen, where he teaches the history and culture of the English-speaking world. Sera-Shriar is the author of <i>Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age</i> and <i>The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871</i> and senior editor for The Correspondence of John Tyndall<i> </i>series.
4 Ebooks by Efram Sera-Shriar
Efram Sera-Shriar: The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871
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 …
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Efram Sera-Shriar: Historicizing Humans
<i>With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek</i>
A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century …
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Efram Sera-Shriar: Psychic Investigators
<i>Psychic Investigators </i>examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the …
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Bernard Lightman & Efram Sera-Shriar: Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role …
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