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[Cutting from The London Journal (1853?) titled: 'The earthmen in Southern Africa'. ].

Histoire naturelle du genre humain ... / [J.-J. Virey].

"Fig. 1 - Negrito" The phrenological journal, 1870.

Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris.

Éléments d'anthropologie générale / par Paul Topinard.

A Samoan woman with leaves in her hair.

Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes showing African life. Collotype.

University of Aberdeen : the Anatomical and Anthropological Society : 1903-1904 : [membership card].

A Bulgarian female acrobat performing contortions in a photographic studio.

Colón, Panama: unpaved street lined with wooden houses; two children watch from a porch beside the open sewer. Photograph, 1906.

Mémoires d'anthropologie / de Paul Broca.

Virchow-bibliographie. 1843-1901 / Bearb. von W. Becher ... dr. J. Pagel ... dr. J. Schwalbe ... dr. C. Strauch ... dr. Th. Weyl .. herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe.

Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].

Anthropologie naïve, anthropologie savante : de l'origine de l'homme, de l'imagination et des idées reçues / Wiktor Stoczkowski.

A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

History and theory in anthropology / Alan Barnard.

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Anthropology

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Images about Anthropology

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Virchow-bibliographie. 1843-1901 / Bearb. von W. Becher ... dr. J. Pagel ... dr. J. Schwalbe ... dr. C. Strauch ... dr. Th. Weyl .. herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe.

Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].

Anthropologie naïve, anthropologie savante : de l'origine de l'homme, de l'imagination et des idées reçues / Wiktor Stoczkowski.

A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

History and theory in anthropology / Alan Barnard.

Anthropology

Images from the collections

Images about Anthropology

Works from the collections

Virchow-bibliographie. 1843-1901 / Bearb. von W. Becher ... dr. J. Pagel ... dr. J. Schwalbe ... dr. C. Strauch ... dr. Th. Weyl .. herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe.

Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].

Anthropologie naïve, anthropologie savante : de l'origine de l'homme, de l'imagination et des idées reçues / Wiktor Stoczkowski.

A French woman posing naked and perched on the arm of a chair, in a photographic studio.

History and theory in anthropology / Alan Barnard.

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