| 1 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | Title: | George Combe Papers
| | | Type: | Collection | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | Language: | English | | | Dates: | Circa 1822-1836 | | | Extent: | 3 reels | | | Abstract: | Film copy of papers in National Library of Scotland. | | | Source: | George Combe Papers (Film 1351) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
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