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,…mehr
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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Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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.
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Acknowledgments x Note on the Text xii Introduction 1 Robert Launay Part I The Ancient World 29 1 The Histories of Herodotus 31 Herodotus 2 Germany 39 Tacitus Part II The Middle Ages 47 Section II (a) European Travelers 49 3 The Travels of Marco Polo 51 Marco Polo 4 The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 63 John Mandeville Copyrighted Material Section II (b) The Muslim World 71 5 Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 73 Ibn Battuta 6 The Muqaddimah 84 Ibn Khaldun Part III The Renaissance 93 7 History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, otherwise Called America 95 Jean de Léry 8 Of Cannibals 106 Michel de Montaigne 9 Method for the Easy Comprehension of History 114 Jean Bodin 10 Letter to Joseph Scaliger 125 Henri Lancelot Voisin de la Popelinière Part IV The Seventeenth Century 127 Section IV (a) Jesuits and the Comparative Perspective 129 11 Natural and Moral History of the Indies 131 José de Acosta 12 Relation of What Occurred in New France, in the Year 1634 143 Paul Le Jeune 13 Memoirs and Remarks ... Made in Above Ten Years Travels through the Empire of China 151 Louis Le Comte 14 Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times 159 Joseph François Lafitau Section IV (b) Globetrotters 171 15 Travels in Persia, 1673-1677 173 John Chardin 16 A New Voyage Round the World 183 William Dampier Part V The Enlightenment 193 Section V (a) The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns 195 17 Of Heroic Virtue 197 William Temple 18 Of the Origin of Fables 207 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Section V (b) Putting Words in Their Mouths: Dialogues and Letters 215 19 New Voyages to North America 217 Baron de Lahontan 20 Persian Letters 225 Montesquieu 21 The Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville 228 Denis Diderot Section V (c) Universal History: France 241 22 The Spirit of Laws 243 Montesquieu 23 A Discourse on Inequality 251 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 24 The Philosophy of History 260 Voltaire 25 The A, B, C 265 Voltaire Section V (d) Universal History: Scotland 271 26 Lectures on Jurisprudence 273 Adam Smith 27 An Essay on the History of Civil Society 277 Adam Ferguson Author Index 289 Subject Index 291
Acknowledgments x Note on the Text xii Introduction 1 Robert Launay Part I The Ancient World 29 1 The Histories of Herodotus 31 Herodotus 2 Germany 39 Tacitus Part II The Middle Ages 47 Section II (a) European Travelers 49 3 The Travels of Marco Polo 51 Marco Polo 4 The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 63 John Mandeville Copyrighted Material Section II (b) The Muslim World 71 5 Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 73 Ibn Battuta 6 The Muqaddimah 84 Ibn Khaldun Part III The Renaissance 93 7 History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, otherwise Called America 95 Jean de Léry 8 Of Cannibals 106 Michel de Montaigne 9 Method for the Easy Comprehension of History 114 Jean Bodin 10 Letter to Joseph Scaliger 125 Henri Lancelot Voisin de la Popelinière Part IV The Seventeenth Century 127 Section IV (a) Jesuits and the Comparative Perspective 129 11 Natural and Moral History of the Indies 131 José de Acosta 12 Relation of What Occurred in New France, in the Year 1634 143 Paul Le Jeune 13 Memoirs and Remarks ... Made in Above Ten Years Travels through the Empire of China 151 Louis Le Comte 14 Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times 159 Joseph François Lafitau Section IV (b) Globetrotters 171 15 Travels in Persia, 1673-1677 173 John Chardin 16 A New Voyage Round the World 183 William Dampier Part V The Enlightenment 193 Section V (a) The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns 195 17 Of Heroic Virtue 197 William Temple 18 Of the Origin of Fables 207 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Section V (b) Putting Words in Their Mouths: Dialogues and Letters 215 19 New Voyages to North America 217 Baron de Lahontan 20 Persian Letters 225 Montesquieu 21 The Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville 228 Denis Diderot Section V (c) Universal History: France 241 22 The Spirit of Laws 243 Montesquieu 23 A Discourse on Inequality 251 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 24 The Philosophy of History 260 Voltaire 25 The A, B, C 265 Voltaire Section V (d) Universal History: Scotland 271 26 Lectures on Jurisprudence 273 Adam Smith 27 An Essay on the History of Civil Society 277 Adam Ferguson Author Index 289 Subject Index 291
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