Anthropological Review [LAS] [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Anthropological Review [LAS]*

Summary:	Anthropological Review, The. Journal of the Anthropological Society of London. 1863—1870 Monthly, then quarterly London, England. Language: English. Publisher: Trubner and Co. Corporate author: Anthropological Society of London / Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland1/1, May 1863-8/29, April 1870. 13s. 6d. This was the journal of the Anthropological Society of London founded by James Hunt and Richard Francis Burton in a revolt from the politics of the Ethnological Society. The journal was largely devoted to learned reports on current interests in cranioscopy and the like and is included here because of the regular contributions by Burton, A.R. Wallace, and C. Carter Blake and occasional investigations of spiritualism. American Museum of Natural History; NY Academy of Medicine; etc.
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Issues:	Anthropological Review V1 1863
	Anthropological Review V2 1864
	Anthropological Review V3 1865
	Anthropological Review V4 1866
	Anthropological Review V5 1867
	Anthropological Review V6 1868
	Anthropological Review V7 1869
	Anthropological Review V8 1870
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Anthropological Review was the journal of the Anthropological Society of London, the body James Hunt founded in 1863 after breaking from the Ethnological Society, and it ran until 1870. Its contents are the physical anthropology and ethnology of the mid-Victorian period: skulls measured and compared, populations classified by cranial index, hair and complexion, the antiquity of man argued from cave excavations, and comparative accounts of kinship and custom among peoples the journal called savage. Much of its race theory was contested in its own day and is discredited now. It appears in this archive as an outlier rather than a participant, and for one specific reason: nineteenth-century craniology shared its vocabulary, its instruments and some of its personnel with the phrenological tradition, so a keyword sweep for skulls and cerebral organs finds this journal as readily as it finds the phrenologists. The two enterprises are nonetheless distinct — one measured heads to classify races, the other read them to infer character — and the Anthropological Review belongs to the history of anthropology. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Spiritualism