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Wallace in the Field

Ethnographic Expeditions and the Rise of Anthropology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvVictor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva

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A man of many talents—naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and political commentator—Alfred Russel Wallace made seminal contributions to science in the nineteenth century. With Wallace in the Field, Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva unpacks the early life of one of the most beloved and famous Victorian scientific figures. Focusing on Wallace’s significant contribution to the emergence of anthropology, Limeira-DaSilva traces the peripatetic trajectory of Wallace’s field work, from his humble beginnings in the suburbs of London to his travels through the Brazilian Amazon and Asia. Challenging traditional portrayals that cast Wallace as Darwin’s sidekick or a casual ethnographer, the book demonstrates how he built a deliberate and ambitious career as a field observer of human diversity. It offers a fresh perspective on the intersections between ethnographic encounters, racial science, and knowledge production, revealing how Wallace’s pursuit of recognition helped redefine the standards of scientific authority in British anthropology.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-21
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt491 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor296
FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN9780822948841

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Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva is an historian of science and researcher at the Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (MAST) in Brazil. His research focuses on the Brazilian and British contexts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the history of ethnological studies on Indigenous peoples in Brazil; the history of anthropology and “racial” science; the history of scientific cultures; the history of scientific explorers in South America; scientific collecting and anthropological museums; and the production of scientific knowledge within imperial globalization.

We know a lot about Alfred Russel Wallace. But the way his career was shaped by his early interests in the developing Victorian ‘science of man’ is much less well appreciated. In Wallace in the Field, Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva carefully traces the importance of Wallace’s anthropological work, especially in the Amazon but also in Wales and southeast Asia. Giving both a new perspective on a well-known historical figure and a fascinating study of the links between fieldwork, career-building, and the ideas and politics around the study of human diversity, this book will interest readers from across fields of study.