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Book SynopsisThis book argues that the Enlightenment created the intellectual foundations of modern anthropology, and cultivated the anthropological pursuit of cultural perspective.
Trade Review"Editors Wolff and Cipolloni offer a fascinating collection of contemporary, interdisciplinary, and international perspectives on the 'subject' and 'other' dynamic and its role in the formation of European intellectual history and historiography Wolff gives and in-depth intellectual history of anthropology; Cipolloni concludes with a marvelous discussion of protoanthropology and Euro-American encounters This is an astonishing roundtable of 'worlds' and 'words.'" —
CHOICE"This lucidly written, superbly proof-read, thoroughly documented, and thought-provoking collection of essays deserves the attention of scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates in a wide range of disciplines." —Brian E. Strayer,
Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsContents 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
