{"product_id":"foundations-of-anthropological-theory-isbn-9781405187763","title":"Foundations of Anthropological Theory","description":"\u003ci\u003eFoundations of Anthropological Theory\u003c\/i\u003e presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropological thought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Enables the reader to situate the modern discipline of anthropology within the larger context of intellectual history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Features key texts from the ancient and medieval worlds through to the Enlightenment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge the inherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides fascinating insights into the ways historians, philosophers, missionaries, and even writers of fiction have made valuable contributions to modern anthropological inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ancient World.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerodotus, Histories (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXenophon, The Education of Cyrus (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristotle, Politics (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTacitus, Germania (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Medieval World\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEurope – Journeys to the East:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam of Rubruck, Journal of his embassy to the Mongols (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarco Polo, Travels (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir John Mandeville, Travels (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Muslim World :\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIbn Battuta, Travels (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIbn Khaldun, Muqaddimah (Introduction to World History), (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Renaissance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Spain:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBernardino de Sahagun, General History of the Things of New Spain (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBartolomeo de las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGarcilaso Inka de la Vega, Royal Commentaries on the Inca of Peru (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntarctic France:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean de Léry, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTowards a comparative theory:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJose de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Bodin, Method for the Comprehension of History (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLa Popelinière, “Letter to de Thou”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Seventeenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatteo Ricci\/Nicolas Trigault, Description of China (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaul Le Jeune, Journey among the Montagnais (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Chardin, Travels to Persia (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Dampier, A new voyage around the globe(selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Enlightenment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAncients and Moderns:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir William Temple, “Of Heroic Virtues”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBernard de Fontenelle, “The Origin of Fables”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExotic letters:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontesquieu, Persian Letters (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrançoise de Grafigny, Letters of a Peruvian Woman (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDialogues with the Savages:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLahontan, Dialogue between the Author and a Savage of Good Sense (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiderot, Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComparative Perspectives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrance :\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrançois-Joseph Lafitau, Customs of the American Savages Compared to the Customs of the Earliest Times (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontesquieu, The Spirit of Laws (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoltaire, Commentary on the Spirit of Laws (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssai sur les Moeurs (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScotland:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Hume, The Natural History of Religion (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdam Smith, Lectures on Jurisprudence (selections).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdam Ferguson, Essay on the History of Civil Society (selections)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Launay\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at \u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eNorthwestern\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e \u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eUniversity\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTraders Without Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Amaury Talbot Prize, and numerous articles on the anthropology of Islam and Muslim societies in \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eWest Africa\u003c\/st1:place\u003e. He has written extensively on both the contemporary and early history of anthropology, and is completing a new book, \u003ci\u003eSavages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e. The formal discipline of anthropology emerged out of centuries of European reflection on the nature of non-Europeans, but the roots of this field were laid down long before. \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Anthropological Theory\u003c\/i\u003e presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad scope of writings on human behavior across cultures that are the basis for the modern study of Anthropology. Editor, Robert Launay reveals how the concerns of contemporary anthropology were first formulated by early thinkers, from observations by Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to the works of Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. The readings explore the origins and nature of different social and political systems, as well as the origins of inequality, and the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge the inherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations. These illuminating selections provide fascinating insight into the ways historians, philosophers, missionaries, and even writers of fiction have made valuable contributions to modern anthropological inquiry. Accessible and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Anthropological Theory\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars alike.  “This splendid selection demonstrates the issues to which contemporary anthropology is heir, and thus serves as an insightful reminder that the topics raised are of more than mere historical concern.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eLawrence Rosen,\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University  \u003cp\u003eRobert Launay’s critical introduction and carefully selected texts brilliantly portray how anthropology’s predecessors, European and non-European, framed central issues in understanding their own and other societies. \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Anthropological Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is must reading – and also a pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eDale F. 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