1. Islands in the Pacific: Darwinian biogeography and British anthropology
- Author
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Kuklick, Henrika
- Subjects
Pacific Islands -- Environmental aspects ,Biogeography -- Analysis ,Anthropology -- Analysis ,Evolution -- Analysis ,Isolating mechanisms -- Analysis ,Anthropology/archeology/folklore ,Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies - Abstract
The intellectual lineage of the island model particularly associated with British functionalism is traced to Darwinian biogeography, from which it was abstracted in the 1920s; at that time both the patronage structure and the intellectual ecology of the discipline altered fundamentally. Darwinian biogeography itself is grounded in its sociohistorical context - in the problem of acclimatization raised by human population movements, particularly those associated with colonialism. [evolutionism, functionalism, Darwinism, biogeography, isolation, speciation, diffusionism, Britain]
- Published
- 1996