Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / / Margaret T. Hodgen.
Although 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©1964 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Illustrations -- The Medieval Prologue -- The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Index |
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Summary: | Although 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.Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780812206715 9783110413458 9783110413618 9783110442526 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9780812206715 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Margaret T. Hodgen. |