Up from the ape : colonialism, craniometry and the emergence of anatomical humanism

Kay Anderson; Colin Perrin

Up from the ape : colonialism, craniometry and the emergence of anatomical humanism

Kay Anderson
, Colin Perrin

Institute for Culture & Society

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Abstract

Compared to other life forms, human beings-or at least those who come from European-derived cultures-tend to believe that they are, or become, human as they transcend some animal-like condition. As Simon Glendinning has put it (in the same universalist terminology of the philosophical humanism he criticises): 'Man is only man insofar as he is essentially more than a human animal.'

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Challenging (the) Humanities
Editors	Tony Bennett
Place of Publication	North Melbounre, Vic.
Publisher	Australian Scholarly
Pages	1-16
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9781925003468
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Up from the ape : colonialism, craniometry and the emergence of anatomical humanism

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