Researches into the Physical History of Man
By James Cowles Prichard · Running time 15:43:27 · Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of the nineteenth century. He is considered by many to be the "Father of Anthropology". The central conclusion of the work is the unity of the human species, which has been acted upon by causes that have since divided it into permanent varieties or races. In his Preface, he writes: "In the course of this essay I have maintained the opinion that all mankind constitute but one race or proceed from a single family". In this summary passage Prichard indicates Afri
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
More by James Cowles Prichard (1)
You might also like
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1Charles Mackay · 14:18:44
- Following the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldMark Twain · 20:14:12
- Domestic Manners of the AmericansFrances Milton Trollope · 11:50:38
- Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble · 11:59:36
- Home Life in Colonial DaysAlice Morse Earle · 13:02:49
- American EgyptChanning Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost · 19:46:47
- Soul or Rational PsychologyEmanuel Swedenborg · 15:16:09
- Book of the DeadE. A. Wallis Budge · 16:29:22