The anthropology of the enlightenment / edited by Larry Wolff, Marco Cipolloni with Sunil Agnani [and thirteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agnani, Sunil, contributor.

Cipolloni, Marco, editor.

Wolff, Larry, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--History--18th century.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 414 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural perceptions, perspectives, and self-consciousness emerged from the eighteenth-century intellectual context of the Enlightenment. If the Renaissance discovered perspective in art, it was the Enlightenment that articulated and explored the problem of perspective in viewing history, culture, and society. If the Renaissance was the age of oceanic discovery—most dramatically the discovery of the New World of America—the critical reflections of the Enlightenment brought about an intellectual rediscovery of the New World and thus laid the foundations for modern anthropology. The contributions that constitute this book present the multiple anthropological facets of the Enlightenment, and suggest that the character of its intellectual engagements—acknowledging global diversity, interpreting human societies, and bridging cultural difference—must be understood as a whole to be fundamentally anthropological.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Dedicated to the "Bronco" network, in the spirit of worldwide independence, friendship, and freedom

Contents

Preface

Contributors

1. Discovering Cultural Perspective: The Intellectual History of Anthropological Thought in the Age of Enlightenment

2. Barbarians and the Redefinition of Europe: A Study of Gibbon's Third Volume

3. The Immobility of China: Orientalism and Occidentalism in the Enlightenment

4. Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Diderot and the Two Indies of the French Enlightenment

5. Adam Smith and the Anthropology of the Enlightenment: The "Ethnographic" Sources of Economic Progress

6. Beyond the Savage Character: Mexicans, Peruvians, and the "Imperfectly Civilized" in William Robertson's History of America

7. Herder's India: The "Morgenland" in Mythology and Anthropology

8. The German Enlightenment and the Pacific

9. Persian Letters from Real People: Northern Perspectives on Europe

10. Russia and Its "Orient": Ethnographic Exploration of the Russian Empire in the Age of Enlightenment

11. Love in the Time of Hierarchy: Ethnographic Voices in Eighteenth-Century Haiti

12. The Dreaming Body: Cartesian Psychology, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jesuits in Nouvelle France

13. The Anthropology of Natural Law: Debates About Pufendorf in the Age of Enlightenment

14. "Animal Economy": Anthropology and the Rise of Psychiatry from the Encyclopedic to the Alienists

15. Metamorphosis and Settlement: The Enlightened Anthropology of Colonial Societies

16. The Old Wor(l)d and the New Wor(l)ds: A Discursive Survey from Discovery to Early Anthropology

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-405) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804779432

0804779430

OCLC:

1198930317