Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesAlthough social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back as the sixteenth century, when contact with unfamiliar peoples in the New World led Europeans to create ways of describing and understanding social similarities and differences among humans. |
Contents
The Medieval Prologue | 15 |
The Classical Heritage | 17 |
The Ethnology of the Medieval Encyclopedists | 49 |
Ethnology Trade and Missionary Endeavor | 78 |
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | 109 |
or the Cabinet of Curios | 111 |
Modes of Classification and Description | 162 |
The Ark of Noah and the Problem of Cultural Diversity | 207 |
Diffusion Degeneration and Environmentalism | 254 |
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Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Margaret T. Hodgen Limited preview - 2011 |
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Margaret T. Hodgen No preview available - 1971 |
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