Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Name: Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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ISBN: 9780812210149

ISBN-10: 081221014X

ISBN-13: 9780812210149

Edition: 1964 (Reprint)

Authors: Margaret T. Hodgen

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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…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1964
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English