The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Anthony Pagden

The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology

Anthony Pagden

284 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

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This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1...

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