Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780812210149
Subjects: Anthropology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Sociology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Europe; Ancient - General; Anthropology - General; Europe - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General
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.