The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Stud

The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Stud

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This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first indepth study of the preEnlightenment 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 anthropology, to examine four groups of writers who analysed Indian culture: the sixteenthcentury theologian, Francisco de Vitoria, and his followers; the champion of the Indians Bartolom de Las Casas; and the Jesuit historians Jos de Acosta and Joseph Franois Lafitau. Dr Pagden explains the sources for their theories and how these conditioned their observations. He also examines for the first time the key terms in each writer s vocabulary words such as barbarian and civil and the assumptions that lay beneath them.

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