Fall of Natural Man The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology

Name: Fall of Natural Man The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology
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ISBN: 9780521337045

ISBN-10: 0521337046

ISBN-13: 9780521337045

Edition: 1982

Authors: Anthony Pagden, E. Pupo-Walker, P. E. Russell, A. R. D. Pagden, Herbert S. Klein

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This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human society was replaced by a more sophisticated relativist approach. Anthony Pagden uses new methods of technical analysis, already developed in philosophy and anthropology, to examine four groups of writers who analysed Indian culture: the sixteenth-century theologian, Francisco de Vitoria, and his followers; the 'champion of the Indians' Bartolom de Las Casas; and the Jesuit historians Jos de Acosta…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/9/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Anthony Pagden is Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



The problem of recognition



The image of the barbarian



The theory of natural slavery



From nature's slaves to nature's children



The rhetorician and the theologians: Juan Gines de Sepulveda and his dialogue, Democrates secundus



A programme for comparative ethnology: (1) Bartolome de Las Casas



A programme for comparative ethnology: (2) Jose de Acosta



Joseph Francois Lafitau: comparative ethnology and the language of symbols


Notes


Bibliography


Index