03121nam 2200661 a 450 991045491370332120211014234749.01-283-89914-00-8122-0671-10-585-17264-110.9783/9780812206715(CKB)111004368586776(OCoLC)44964435(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642196(SSID)ssj0000142262(PQKBManifestationID)11144012(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142262(PQKBWorkID)10097139(PQKB)11311333(MiAaPQ)EBC3441861(OCoLC)794702284(MdBmJHUP)muse17922(DE-B1597)449240(OCoLC)979724280(DE-B1597)9780812206715(Au-PeEL)EBL3441861(CaPaEBR)ebr10642196(CaONFJC)MIL421164(OCoLC)843080383(EXLCZ)9911100436858677620770413d1971 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEarly anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries[electronic resource] /by Margaret T. Hodgen1st pbk. ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press19711 online resource (528 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-7345-1 0-8122-1014-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Foreword --Contents --Illustrations --The Medieval Prologue --The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries --The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --IndexAlthough 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.AnthropologyHistoryElectronic books.AnthropologyHistory.301.09031Hodgen Margaret T(Margaret Trabue),1890-681092MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454913703321Early anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries1257582UNINA