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Crawfurd

Proper noun

Meaning

Crawfurd (plural Crawfurds)

A surname.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Crawfurd 1830, p. 215. As a result of Western medicine brought by missionaries as well as increased immigration from both within Siam and overseas, Bangkok's population gradually increased as the city modernized in the late 19th century. Source: Internet

Crawfurd and Hunt routinely accused those who disagreed with them of believing in "Rousseau's Noble Savage". Source: Internet

"As Ter Ellingson demonstrates, Crawfurd was responsible for re-introducing the Pre-Rousseauian concept of 'the Noble Savage' to modern anthropology, attributing it wrongly and quite deliberately to Rousseau.” Source: Internet

The pair ultimately quarreled because Hunt believed in slavery and Crawfurd did not. Source: Internet

Crawfurd was Scots, and thought the Scots "race" superior to all others; whilst Hunt, on the other hand, believed in the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon "race". Source: Internet

" For Crawfurd, the races had been created separately and were different species. Source: Internet

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