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The Crystal Palace Company published a series of official handbooks in 1854 for displays in its Sydenham pleasure park. The "Natural History Court" had two organising themes. First, ethnology was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups. (Sometimes, they also included living visitors from those groups). Latham's guide emphasises what visitors could not see displayed, such as language and religious practices. He also shows his discipline's obsession with rankings - one culture against another - together with the cultural biases inherent in their work. Second, zoology and botany were represented by regional displays. Forbes was a naturalist in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt. This catalogue mentions most of the specimens displayed. It also stresses fundamental principles of biogeography. Written five years before Darwin's Origin of Species, Forbes' essay nicely shows how naturalists theorized before evolutionary ideas took hold.
Release date Australia
September 15th, 2013
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Edition
Facsimile of 1854 ed
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Pages
98
Dimensions
148x210x5
ISBN-13
9781906267223
Product ID
21650381

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