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Foundations of Anthropological Theory presents a selectionof key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropologicalthought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to AdamSmith and Adam Ferguson.
Enables the reader to situate the modern discipline ofanthropology within the larger context of intellectual history Features key texts from the ancient and medieval worldsthrough to the Enlightenment Considers the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge theinherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations Provides fascinating insights into the ways historians,philosophers,…mehr

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Foundations of Anthropological Theory presents a selectionof key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropologicalthought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to AdamSmith and Adam Ferguson.

Enables the reader to situate the modern discipline ofanthropology within the larger context of intellectual history
Features key texts from the ancient and medieval worldsthrough to the Enlightenment
Considers the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge theinherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations
Provides fascinating insights into the ways historians,philosophers, missionaries, and even writers of fiction have madevaluable contributions to modern anthropological inquiry
Autorenporträt
Robert Launay is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Traders Without Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town, which won the Amaury Talbot Prize, and numerous articles on the anthropology of Islam and Muslim societies in West Africa. He has written extensively on both the contemporary and early history of anthropology, and is completing a new book, Savages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology.