Société Ethnologique de Paris
The Société Ethnologique de Paris was a short-lived French learned society set up by William Frédéric Edwards in 1839.[1] At the time ethnology was a neologism (ethnologie in French), and the Société was the first association of scholars and travellers to have as its central concern race.
The effective manifesto of the Soc was Des charactères physiologiques des races humaines considérés dans leurs rapports avec l'histoire, a pamphlet of Edwards from a decade earlier.[2]
Edwards died in 1842. The Société was active for some years towards the end of the July Monarchy, but then political involvements told against it.[3] Publications appeared to 1847.
The membership of the Société included significant Saint-Simonian figures, among them Gustave d'Eichthal.[2]
Notes
- ^ Scholarly Societies Project, Data for Societies founded 1810 to 1839
- ^ a b Template:Fr icon Philippe Régnier (2002). Etudes saint-simoniennes. Presses Universitaires Lyon. p. 135. ISBN 978-2-7297-0701-9. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ George W. Stocking (15 September 1990). Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-299-11254-7. Retrieved 28 May 2012.