Early anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Edition: First Pennsylvania paperback ed edition
Publisher: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1971
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780812273458
Subjects: Anthropology; History
First sentence: WHEN "A CERTAYNE CARAVELLE sayling the West Ocean . . . was driven to a land unknowne, and not described by any Map or Carde of the Sea," medieval conceptions of savagery began slowly to lose their hold on the European mentality.