The anthropology of the Enlightenment
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The anthropology of the Enlightenment
Stanford University Press, 2007
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Contributors: Sunil Agnani ... [et al.]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-405) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents PREFACE iiii Contributors iiii INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter One Discovering Cultural Perspective: The Intellectual History of Anthropological Thought in the Age of Enlightenment Larry Wolff PART I: Philosophical History and Enlightened Anthropology Chapter Two Barbarians and the Redefinition of Europe: A Study of Gibbon's Third Volume J. G. A. Pocock Chapter Three The Immobility of China: Orientalism and Occidentalism in the Enlightenment Anthony Pagden Chapter Four Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Diderot and the Two Indies of the French Enlightenment Sunil Agnani Chapter Five Adam Smith and the Anthropology of the Enlightenment: The "Ethnographic" Sources of Economic Progress Christian Marouby Chapter Six Beyond the Savage Character: Mexicans, Peruvians, and the "Imperfectly Civilized" in William Robertson's History of America Neil Hargraves Chapter Seven Herder's India: The "Morgenland" in Mythology and Anthropology Nicholas Germana PART II: Ethnography and Enlightened Anthropology Chapter Eight The German Enlightenment and the Pacific John Gascoigne Chapter Nine Persian Letters from Real People: Northern Perspectives on Europe Michael Harbsmeier Chapter Ten Russia and its "Orient": Ethnographic Exploration in the Russian Empire in the Age of Enlightenment Giulia Cecere Chapter Eleven Love in the Time of Hierarchy: Ethnographic Voices in Eighteenth-Century Haiti Jean-Philippe Belleau PART III: Human Nature and Enlightened Anthropology Chapter Twelve The Dreaming Body: Cartesian Psychology, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jesuits in Nouvelle France Mary Baine Campbell Chapter Thirteen The Anthropology of Natural Law: Debates about Pufendorf in the Age of Enlightenment Michael Kempe Chapter Fourteen "Animal Economy": Anthropology and the Rise of Psychiatry from the Encyclopedie to the Alienists Philippe Huneman Chapter Fifteen Metamorphosis and Settlement: The Enlightened Anthropology of Colonial Societies Jonathan Lamb CONCLUSION Chapter Sixteen The Old Wor(l)d and the New Wor(l)ds: A Discursive Survey from Discovery to Early Anthropology Marco Cipolloni Notes Index
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