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Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology

The first use of the word 'anthropology' in English was recorded in 1593, but its modern use to indicate the study and science of humanity became current in the late nineteenth century. At that time a separate discipline had begun to evolve from many component strands (including history, archaeology, linguistics, biology and anatomy), and the study of so-called 'primitive' peoples was given impetus not only by the reports of individual explorers but also by the need of colonial powers to define and classify the unfamiliar populations which they governed. From the ethnographic writings of early explorers to the 1898 Cambridge expedition to the Torres Straits, often regarded as the first truly 'anthropological' field research, these books provide eye-witness information on often vanished peoples and ways of life, as well as evidence for the development of a new scientific discipline.

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  • The Todas

    Rivers, William Halse
    Published: February 2018

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  • Celtic Folklore

    Welsh and Manx

    Rhys, John
    Published: June 2016
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  • Celtic Folklore

    Welsh and Manx

    Rhys, John
    Published: June 2016
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  • Life with the Esquimaux

    The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall of the Whaling Barque George Henry from the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862

    Hall, Charles Francis
    Published: December 2011

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  • Primitive Culture

    Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom

    Tylor, Edward Burnett
    Published: December 2010

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