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From ‘savage’ to ‘primitive’: Victorian evolutionism and the interpretation of marginalized peoples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter J. Bowler
Peter J. Bowler*
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Department of Social Anthropology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 721 - 729
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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