{"173441":{"#nid":"173441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nihad Farooq Publishes Essay on Darwin in Concentric","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe essay argues that the recurring themes of perception and the place of the human in the scale of geological time came together for Charles Darwin \u003Cem\u003Efirst\u003C\/em\u003E in an anthropological context aboard HMS\u003Cem\u003E Beagle\u003C\/em\u003E in the 1830s. Though his primary interests in his early research years were geology and zoology, the foundational influence of the \u003Cem\u003EBeagle\u003C\/em\u003E journey on his burgeoning theories of the human is not to be discounted. Farooq contends that it was Darwin\u2019s few but important anthropological observations during this significant 1831-36 excursion, especially of the native inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, that left the most indelible impression on the young naturalist, and to which he would anxiously return in subsequent years. This is where he puzzled over the seemingly single-generation shift between the three pleasant, Anglicized Fuegians (who, after a three-year British sojourn, traveled back to Tierra del Fuego aboard the \u003Cem\u003EBeagle \u003C\/em\u003Ewith him) and their \u201csavage\u201d brethren who greeted the ship on the shores of their native homeland. Farooq begins her essay by tracing the foundational influence of language in shaping Darwin\u2019s re-vision of the human, as his prose often shifts between the perceptual immersion of the curious naturalist and the ordered prose of a calculating scientist. She then examines Darwin\u2019s actual experience with the Anglicized Fuegians, and his perplexity at their eventual \u201creversion.\u201d This is the moment when Darwin\u2019s theory and gaze begin to focus on the human. Through his exposure to the Anglicized Fuegians and their unassimilated counterparts at home, coupled with the \u201cnew way of seeing\u201d and writing that his landscape and experiences demanded, Darwin inaugurates a burgeoning concept of cultural relativity and cultural fluidity, one that eventually enables him\u2014and paves the way for future scholars and practitioners\u2014to link all humans \u201calong the arc of culture.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u0022Narrating Sense, Ordering Nature: Darwin\u0027s Anthropological Vision"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2012-11-27 11:35:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:14","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-11-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"130721":{"id":"130721","type":"image","title":"Nihad M. Farooq_200by300","body":null,"created":"1449178647","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:27","changed":"1475894757","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:57","alt":"Nihad M. Farooq_200by300","file":{"fid":"194669","name":"farooq_faculty_200by300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/farooq_faculty_200by300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/farooq_faculty_200by300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45606,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/farooq_faculty_200by300_0.jpg?itok=pwz_QHIG"}}},"media_ids":["130721"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"51391","name":"anthropology"},{"id":"13406","name":"Charles Darwin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["nihad.farooq@lmc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}