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Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Margaret T. Hodgen
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Paperback. "Writing with erudition and a broad grasp of the history of social thought, Hodgen demonstrates the debt owed to the period of the late Renaissance and even the centuries prior to that."-American Anthropologist Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 669.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812210149
SKU
V9780812210149
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About Margaret T. Hodgen
Margaret T. Hodgen is author of The Doctrine of Survivals: A Chapter in the History of Scientific Method in the Study of Man and Change and History: A Study of the Dated Distributions of Technological Innovations in England.
Reviews for Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Writing with erudition and a broad grasp of the history of social thought, Hodgen demonstrates the debt owed to the period of the late Renaissance and even the centuries prior to that. -American Anthropologist