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James Wilson and the Scottish Enlightenment
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The career of Daniel Wilson (1816-1892), the English-speaking world's first scientific archaeologist, embraced two continents and drew on his other skills as an artist, antiquarian, anthropologist, and university teacher.Abstract:
The career of Daniel Wilson (1816-1892), the English-speaking world's first scientific archaeologist, embraced two continents and drew on his other skills as an artist, antiquarian, anthropologist, and university teacher. While Wilson's approach to archaeology was based on the work of the Scandinavian archaeologists Christian Thomsen and Jens Worsaae, his understanding of human behaviour was shaped by the popular culture of early 19th-century Edinburgh, especially the thinking of Scottish primitivists and Common Sense philosophers and the romanticism of Sir Walter Scott. Like 18th-century Enlightenment philosophers, Wilson believed in cultural evolution but retained a creationist view of human origins and regarded human nature as unchanging. He reluctantly accepted biological evolution, but his refusal to adopt an evolutionary view of the origin of the human mind led him to reject the racism that was introduced into studies of cultural evolution by Darwinians such as John Lubbock. By advocating the integration of aboriginal peoples into what he hoped would become a multiracial society in North America, Wilson continued to champion the concepts of the Enlightenment at a time when such ideals had become unfashionable.read more
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历史的观念 = The idea of history
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TL;DR: In this paper, R. G. Collingwood considers how the modern idea of history has grown up from the time of Herodotus to the present day, and how history is not contained in books and documents, it lives only as a present interest and pursuit, in the mind of the historian when he criticizes and interprets those documents, and by so doing relives for himself the states of mind into which he inquires'.
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The Mismeasure of Man
TL;DR: The Mismeasure of man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits, and yet the idea of innate limits-of biology as destiny-dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould.
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The idea of history
TL;DR: In this article, R. G. Collingwood considers how the modern idea of history has grown up from the time of Herodotus to the present day, and how history is not contained in books and documents, it lives only as a present interest and pursuit, in the mind of the historian when he criticizes and interprets those documents, and by so doing relives for himself the states of mind into which he inquires'.
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A History of Archaeological Thought
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective, and found that subjective influences have been powerful, while the gradual accumulation of archaeological data has exercised a growing constraint on interpretation.
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TL;DR: Shanks and Tilley as discussed by the authors argue against the functionalism and positivism which result from an inadequate assimilation of social theory into the day-to-day practice of archaeology, and present a challenge to the traditional idea of the archaeologist as explorer or discoverer and the more recent emphasis on archaeology as behavioural science.