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

by Anthony Pagden

Book Overview

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 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human society was replaced by a more sophisticated relativist approach. Anthony Pagden uses new methods of technical analysis, already developed in philosophy and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521337046
• ISBN13: 9780521337045
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"