The anthropology of the Enlightenment
By: edited by Larry Wolff and Marco Cipolloni
Contributors: Wolff, Larry; Cipolloni, Marco
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780804752022; 9780804752039
Subjects: Anthropology -- History -- 18th century; Anthropology -- Philosophy; Enlightenment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-405) and index
Table of contents: title: Discovering cultural perspective : the intellectual history of anthropological thought in the age of enlightenment / Larry Wolff; title: Barbarians and the redefinition of Europe : a study of Gibbon's third volume / J.G.A. Pocock; title: The immobility of China : orientalism and occidentalism in the Enlightenment / Anthony Pagden; title: Doux commerce, douce colonisation : Diderot and the two Indies of the French Enlightenment / Sunil Agnani; title: Adam Smith and the anthropology of the enlightenment : the "ethnographic" sources of economic progress / Christian Marouby; title: Beyond the savage character : Mexicans, Peruvians, and the "imperfectly civilized" in William  Robertson's History of America / Neil Hargraves; title: Herder's India : the "Morgenland" in mythology and anthropology / Nicholas A. Germana; title: The German enlightenment and the Pacific / John Gascoigne; title: Persian letters from real people : Northern perspectives on Europe / Michael Harbsmeier; title: Russia and its "Orient" : ethnographic exploration in the Russian Empire in the age of Enlightenment / Giulia Cecere; title: Love in the time of hierarchy : ethnographic voices in eighteenth-century Haiti / Jean-Philippe E. Belleau; title: The dreaming body : Cartesian psychology, enlightenment anthropology, and the Jesuits in Nouvelle France / Mary Baine Campbell; title: The anthropology of natural law : debates about Pufendorf in the age of Enlightenment / Michael Kempe; title: "Animal economy" : anthropology and the rise of psychiatry from the Encyclopédie to the Alienists /  Philippe Huneman; title: Metamorphosis and settlement : the enlightened anthropology of colonial societies / Jonathan Lamb; title: The old wor(l)d and the new wor(l)ds : a discursive survey from discovery to early anthropology /    Marco Cipolloni