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The Fall of Natural Man : The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies)
The Fall of Natural Man The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology - Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
Author: Anthony Pagden
This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human society was replaced by a more sophisticated relativ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521222020
ISBN-10: 0521222028
Publication Date: 9/30/1982
Pages: 270
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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