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Illustrating ‘savagery’: Sir John Lubbock and Ernest Griset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tim Murray
Tim Murray*
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*Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia (Email: [email protected])
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Much has been written about the extraordinary impact of Darwinism during the mid- to late nineteenth century, expressed in the scholarship of 'reception studies' (see for example Ellegård 1958; Glick 1988; Numbers & Stenhouse 1999). A significant focus has been on developing an understanding of the impact of Darwinian thinking on just about every aspect of Victorian society, particularly on literature, science, politics and social relations (see for example Beer 1983; Frayter 1997; Lorimer 1997; Moore 1997; Paradis 1997; Browne 2001). A great deal of attention has also been paid (by historians and philosophers of science) into the specifics of how the Darwinian message was disseminated so quickly and so broadly. Here the interest lies in the links between the rhetoric of scientific naturalism and the politics of the day, be it Whig-Liberal or Tory (see for example Clark 1997; Barton 1998, 2004; Clifford et al. 2006). A consequent interest lies in the ways in which science was popularised in Victorian Britain (see especially Lightman 1997, 2007).

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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 320 , June 2009 , pp. 488 - 499
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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