Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Anniversary Collection 1st Edition by Margaret T Hodgen ISBN 0812273451 978-0812273458

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ISBN 10: 0812273451

ISBN 13: 978-0812273458

Author: 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 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.

Table of contents: 

CHAPTER I. The Classical Heritage
CHAPTER II. The Ethnology of the Medieval Encyclopedists Pilgrims J Merchants J and Missionaries
CHAPTER III. Ethnology, Trade, and Missionary Endeavor
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
CHAPTER IV. The Fardle of Façions: or the Cabinet of Curios
CHAPTER V. Collections of Customs: Modes of Classification and Description
CHAPTER VI. The Ark of Noah and the Problem of Cultural Diversity
CHAPTER VII. Diffusion, Degeneration, and Environmentalism
CHAPTER VIII. Similarities and Their Documentary Properties
CHAPTER IX. The Problem of Savagery
CHAPTER X. The Place of the Savage in the Chain of Being
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
CHAPTER XI. From Hierarchy to History
CHAPTER XII. Aftermath

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