A History of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800
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A History of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800
（Studies in anthropology and history, v. 13）
Harwood Academic, c1995
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
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Bibliography: p. 297-329
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: hardcover ISBN 9783718653423
Description
The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. Stagl weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times; links which have previously only been suspected. In focusing on the ars apodemica , or art of travelling, a body of formal instruction on how to travel, observe and record the information gathered, Stagl demonstrates the origins of the characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern West. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The two principal methods of research, travel and the questionnaire, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times.
Table of Contents
The Methodizing of Travel in the Sixteenth Century: A Tale of Three Cities Rerum Memoria: Early Modern Enquiries and Documentation Centres Imagines Mundi: Allegories of the Continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment The Man Who Called Himself George Psalmanazar or The Problems of the Authenticity of Ethnographic Description Josephinism and Social Research: The Patriotic Traveller of Count Leopold Berchtold August Ludwig Schloezer and the Study of Mankind According to Peoples From the Private to the Sponsored Traveller: Volney's Reform of Travel Instruction and the French Revolution
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: softcover ISBN 9783718656219
Description
First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical historical perspective. The three principal methods of research, travel, the survey and the collection of significant objects, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times. The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. He weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasising links between the figures, the philosophies and the literatures of early modern times; links which have previously only been suspected. In focussing on the ars apodemica, or art of travelling'', a body of formal instructions on how to travel, observe and record the information gathered, the author demonstrates the origins of the characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern West.
Table of Contents
- The methodizing of travel in the 16th century - a tale of three cities
- rerum memoria - early modern enquiries and documentation centres
- imagines mundi - allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment
- the man who called himself George Psalmanaazar or the problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description
- Josephinism and social research - the patriotic traveller of Count Leopold Berchtold
- August Ludwig Schlozer and the study of mankind according to peoples
- from the autonomous to the heteronomous traveller - Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.
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