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.
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<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.
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