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Trautmann, Thomas Roger was born on May 27, 1940 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Milton and Esther Florence (Trachte) Trautmann.
( Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and p...)
Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape, Morgan’s massive and technical Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family was decisive. Thomas R. Trautmann offers a new interpretation of the genesis of “kinship” and of the role it played in late nineteenth-century intellectual history. This Bison Books edition features a new introduction and appendices by the author.
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( British rule of India brought together two very differe...)
British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786--proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe--and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816--the "Dravidian proof," showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not derived from Sanskrit. These concepts are valid still today, centuries later. This book continues the examination Thomas R. Trautmann began in Aryans and British India (1997). While the previous book focused on Calcutta and Jones, the current volume examines these developments from the vantage of Madras, focusing on Ellis, Collector of Madras, and the Indian scholars with whom he worked at the College of Fort St. George, making use of the rich colonial record. Trautmann concludes by showing how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics and continue in the present as unseen but nevertheless living elements of the modern.
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Dravidian Kinship (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Jan 29, 1982 Trautmann, Thomas R. ...
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Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneer anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape, Morgan's massive and technical Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family was decisive. Thomas Trautmann offers a new interpretation of the genesis of "kinship," and of the role it played in late nineteenth-century intellectual history.
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"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.
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Trautmann, Thomas Roger was born on May 27, 1940 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Milton and Esther Florence (Trachte) Trautmann.
Bachelor, Beloit College, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1968.
Lecturer in history, School Oriental and African Studies, U. London, 1965-1968;
assistant professor of history, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968-1971;
associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971-1977;
professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1977;
Richard Hudson research professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979;
professor of history and anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1984;
department chairman history, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1990;
Steelcase research professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1993-1994;
director Institute Humanities, Mary Fair Croushore professor humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1997;
Marshall Sahlins professor of history and anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1997.
( "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatr...)
(This compelling and carefully researched reassessment of ...)
( British rule of India brought together two very differe...)
( Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and p...)
( Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and p...)
(Dravidian Kinship (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultur...)
(Being Volume 84, Parts 6 and 7 of the Transactions of the...)
Member American Anthropological Association, Association Asian Studies, American Institute Indian Studies (member executive committee trustee, senior research fellow in India 1985, 97), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Marcella Hauolilani Choy, September 25, 1962. Children: Theodore William, Robert Arthur.