TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodgen,Margaret T.
TI  - Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
SN  - 9780812273458
AV  - GN17 -- H63 1971eb 
U1  - 301.09031 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Literature
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Illustrations --; The Medieval Prologue --; The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries --; The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206715
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812206715
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