Foundations of Anthropological Theory

From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
Herausgeber: Launay, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

Foundations of Anthropological Theory presents a selectionof key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropologicalthought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to AdamSmith and Adam Ferguson.

Enables the reader to situate the modern discipline ofanthropology within the larger context of intellectual history
Features key texts from the ancient and medieval worldsthrough to the Enlightenment
Considers the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge theinherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations
Provides fascinating insights into the ways historians,philosophers, missionaries, and even writers of fiction have madevaluable contributions to modern anthropological inquiry

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Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781405187756
• ISBN-10: 1405187751
• Artikelnr.: 28099958

Autorenporträt

Robert Launay is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Traders Without Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town, which won the Amaury Talbot Prize, and numerous articles on the anthropology of Islam and Muslim societies in West Africa. He has written extensively on both the contemporary and early history of anthropology, and is completing a new book, Savages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
The Ancient World.
Herodotus, Histories (selections).
Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus (selections).
Aristotle, Politics (selections).
Tacitus, Germania (selections).
The Medieval World.
Europe - Journeys to the East:.
William of Rubruck, Journal of his embassy to the Mongols (selections).
Marco Polo, Travels (selections).
Sir John Mandeville, Travels (selections).
The Muslim World :.
Ibn Battuta, Travels (selections).
Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah (Introduction to World History), (selections).
The Renaissance.
New Spain:.
Bernardino de Sahagun, General History of the Things of New Spain
(selections).
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition
(selections).
Bartolomeo de las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies (selections).
Garcilaso Inka de la Vega, Royal Commentaries on the Inca of Peru
(selections).
Antarctic France:.
Jean de Léry, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (selections).
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Cannibals".
Towards a comparative theory:.
Jose de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (selections).
Jean Bodin, Method for the Comprehension of History (selections).
La Popelinière, "Letter to de Thou".
The Seventeenth Century.
Matteo Ricci/Nicolas Trigault, Description of China (selections).
Paul Le Jeune, Journey among the Montagnais (selections).
Jean Chardin, Travels to Persia (selections).
William Dampier, A new voyage around the globe(selections).
The Enlightenment.
Ancients and Moderns:.
Sir William Temple, "Of Heroic Virtues".
Bernard de Fontenelle, "The Origin of Fables".
Exotic letters:.
Montesquieu, Persian Letters (selections).
Françoise de Grafigny, Letters of a Peruvian Woman (selections).
Dialogues with the Savages:.
Lahontan, Dialogue between the Author and a Savage of Good Sense
(selections).
Diderot, Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.
Comparative Perspectives.
France :.
François-Joseph Lafitau, Customs of the American Savages Compared to the
Customs of the Earliest Times (selections).
Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws (selections).
Voltaire, Commentary on the Spirit of Laws (selections).
Essai sur les Moeurs (selections).
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (selections).
Scotland:.
David Hume, The Natural History of Religion (selections).
Adam Smith, Lectures on Jurisprudence (selections).
Adam Ferguson, Essay on the History of Civil Society (selections)