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Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Margaret T. Hodgen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©1964Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812273458
  • 9780812206715
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.09031
LOC classification:
  • GN17 -- H63 1971eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Illustrations -- The Medieval Prologue -- The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Illustrations -- The Medieval Prologue -- The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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