{"product_id":"early-anthropology-in-the-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-centuries-9780812210149","title":"Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back as the sixteenth century, when contact with unfamiliar peoples in the New World led Europeans to create ways of describing and understanding social similarities and differences among humans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarly Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\u003c\/i\u003e examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret T. Hodgen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812210149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret T. Hodgen is author of The Doctrine of Survivals: A Chapter in the History of Scientific Method in the Study of Man and Change and History: A Study of the Dated Distributions of Technological Innovations in England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40163132538995,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2029873c-dffe-4b4d-aa54-29b6abf19696.jpg?v=1655042556","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/early-anthropology-in-the-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-centuries-9780812210149","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}