The Fall of Natural Man
Subtitle: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 24, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521337045
Subjects: Anthropology; Sociology; Native American; Native American Anthropology; Social Science; History - General History; South America; Anthropology - Cultural; North American; Ethnology--History; Ethnology--History Ethnology--History; History / Native American; History-North American; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnology; Spain; Anthropology - General; History; Indians; Public opinion
First sentence: 'The conquest of the Indies', wrote Father Pedro Alonso O'Crovley from the vantage point of 1774, 'filled all the vague diffusion of the imaginary spaces of man.'