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Catalogue of the Contemporary Portraits of Alfred Russel Wallace
No full textThis catalogue documents all known portraits (photographic and in other media) of the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), made from life
Other Worlds: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Cross-Cultures of Spiritualism
No full textFirst paragraph: In the spring of the great revolutionary year of 1848, a twenty-five-year-old Alfred Russel Wallace was preparing to set out on the ethnographically unprecedented four-year expedition through the Amazon Basin that would launch his international career as a naturalist and lay the foundations for his co-theorization of natural selection with Charles Darwin. Thousands of miles to the north, an epoch-defining incident of equal significance for Wallace’s thought was underway in the tiny and now no-longer-existent hamlet of Hydesville, New York. Here, in late March, the young mediums Kate and Maggie Fox started to receive—or simulate—the rapped spirit messages from the other world that would electrify northeastern America’s communities and initiate the Anglo-American spiritualist movement in which Wallace was later to become such a major player. Wallace recalled first hearing reports of the phenomena during his bio-ethnographical tours of the global South in the 1850s and dismissing them as “too wild and too outré to be anything but the ravings of madmen” (276).1 Indeed, it was not until 1865, when back in London and able to witness mediated spirit contact—or, at least, its Western incarnation—first hand, that Wallace would personally and then publically embrace the new faith, a move that provoked considerable controversy and derision within the newly professionalized ranks of Britain’s scientific naturalist elite
Alfred Russel Wallace, antropólogo: contribuciones a la antropología física
Get PDFThe figure of Alfred Russel Wallace as an anthropologist has scarcely been recognised in the history of the discipline. An important point is to place the author within the anthropological discussions of the Victorian era, from his early interest as a naturalist in historicizing human beings, to his institutional work as the first president of an anthropology department in England. In this context, the paper seeks to present Wallace’s perspective on physical anthropology, based on his anthropological work, which includes references to the origin of human races in naturalistic terms, the development of distinctive physical characteristics of human beings, or the evolutionary relationship between primates. With this, perspective on the development of physical anthropology in the nineteenth century is broadened, opening up the spectrum to authors who contributed significantly to its development.La figura de Alfred Russel Wallace dentro de la antropología ha sido escasamente reconocida dentro de la historia de la disciplina. Un punto importante es ubicar al autor dentro de las discusiones antropológicas de la época victoriana, desde su interés temprano como naturalista por historizar a los seres humanos, hasta su labor institucional como el primer presidente de un departamento de antropología en Inglaterra. En ese contexto, el objetivo del trabajo es presentar la visión de Wallace respecto a la antropología física, a partir de su obra antropológica, que incluye referencias al origen de las razas humanas en términos naturalistas, al desarrollo de características físicas distintivas de los seres humanos o a la relación evolutiva entre primates. Con esto, se amplía la perspectiva sobre el desarrollo de la antropología física en el siglo XIX, al abrir el abanico a autores que contribuyeron de manera importante a su desarrollo
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'Wallace redux?' [Review] Ross A. Slotten (2004) The heretic at Darwin’s court: the life of Alfred Russel Wallace; Martin Fichman (2004) An elusive Victorian: the evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace
No full textRoss A. Slotten, The Heretic at Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), vii+602, pp., ISBN 0-231-13010-4. Martin Fichman, An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), x+382, pp., ISBN 0-226-24613-2
Alfred Russel Wallace, Geographer
Get PDFAmong the great explorers and thinkers who advanced geography in the nineteenth century and helped it evolve into the subject that exists today is a man who is not always connected with the field, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913). Most commonly recognized as ‘the other man’ in the history of the discovery of the principle of natural selection, Wallace’s commitment to the study of landscape and its physical, biological, and human elements was lifelong, and resulted in a wide range of contributions to biogeography, physical geography, human geography, and ethnography. In this year of the double anniversaries of Charles Darwin’s birth and the publication of On the Origin of Species, a short review of Wallace’s contributions is offered in an effort to characterize Wallace as ‘a geographer who happened to be interested in evolution’
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 14: Background for Wallace\u27s 1845 Kington Essay
Get PDF‘An Essay, On the Best Method of Conducting the Kington Mechanic\u27s Institution’ is one of the earliest written works by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823−1913) known to have reached print. The circumstances of its writing are still not clear, though I here review pertaining facts and theories that seem to indicate Wallace actually was the author of the essay, which had been questioned
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 13: Wallace on Prayer
Get PDFAlfred Russel Wallace (1823−1913) is known to most for his natural history explorations and theoretical biology, but he also developed thoughts on a number of subjects relatable to a wider appreciation of evolutionary cosmology. His adoption of spiritualism, for one, was attuned to this mission, and in turn his otherwise difficult-to-interpret two-sided position on prayer
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 27. When Wallace Broke with Darwin.
Get PDFThe year 1866 was the first year Alfred Russel Wallace showed definite signs of breaking with Darwin over the limits of natural selection. Attention is drawn to a July 1866 exchange of letters between the two, and how this foreshadowed what followed
Alfred Russel Wallace : Crónica de un hombre olvidado
No full textEn las próximas líneas se ensayará una síntesis, más o menos cronológica, de la rica y ajetreada existencia de Alfred Russel Wallace con algunas pinceladas sobre su singular personalidad.
Quizás ellas nos den claves para comprender su pasaje desde la notoriedad pública que caracterizó su vida adulta a la oscuridad en que, en gran medida, fue relegado tras su muerte.Fundación Museo La Plat
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 37. What About Wallace on Vaccination . . . ?
Get PDFBest known for his natural history studies on evolution and biogeography, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823−1913) had a significant second career as a social critic. One of his most controversial stances was his position on (smallpox) vaccination. Anti-vaxxers of the present frequently bring up his name as a resource for their side, but the situation is not so easily reducible to that
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