The Ways of the World: European representations of other cultures: from Homer to Sade - Image 1

£55.00

Sean Kingston Publishing The Ways of the World: European representations of other cultures: from Homer to Sade

Name: The Ways of the World: European representations of other cultures: from Homer to Sade
Brand: Sean Kingston Publishing
Price: 50.6 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 46 days • 46 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 46 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £51 (44 days, 95.7%)

Price range: £51 - £55

Price levels: 2 different prices over 46 days

Description

Before the emergence of anthropology around the middle of the nineteenth century, there was no ethnography as such. But the discipline owes its formation to certain strands that go back into the remoter past of the ancient world, as far back as Homeric epic, and range over such themes as the Greek views of non-Greeks and indeed of the boundaries of what it is to be human. These classical structural polarities have provided an enduring interpretative framework for configuring the 'other' in very different societies and places. Reaching across a remarkable time span, Mason's approach does not attempt a unified narrative, but uses case studies from the ancient world, the early modern era and the Enlightenment, many of them related to the difficulties of comprehending the cultures of the New World, to pinpoint startling continuities and changes. In this way, Mason reveals 'embedded ethnographies' in the works of a diverse set of writers, from giants of their age such as Sextus Empiricus, Columbus, Montaigne, the Marquis de Sade and Goethe, to little-known authors of the sixteenth century such as Jan Huygen van Linschoten (tales of sex and drugs in Goa) and Adriaen Coenen (encountering Eskimos in The Hague). Drawing his conclusions from a wealth of sources, the author deftly moves from travellers' accounts, encyclopaedias, cosmographies and natural history compilations, to literary works of fiction, translating them from seven languages. Many are presented here to English readers for the first time. Whether non-European peoples are demonized or idealized, the author asks, can any trace of a native voice still be found in these European texts? An outstanding work by a scholar with an eye for extraordinary case studies and unexpected cultural connections, which contribute to opening up new paths of research and reinvigorate the field. Francisco Bethencourt - Charles Boxer Professor of History, King's College London The Ways of the World is an elegant, lucid, exemplary piece of intellectual history by an author who is as much at home in philosophy and literary criticism as he is in anthropology and history. Peter Burke - Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Product Specifications

Brand: Sean Kingston Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 190777436X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 May 2015
Listed Since: 01 April 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Sean Kingston Publishing The Ways of the World: European representations of other cultures: from Homer to Sade

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System

Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations (Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences)

Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception)

European Cosmopolitanism in Question (Europe in a Global Context)

In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations (Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences)

Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance: Anthropology in the Mediterranean Region (Urban Anthropology)

Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication (Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability)

Sage Research Practice for Cultural Studies - Ethnographic Methods

Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam (The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia)

Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice: 93 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 93)

Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements: 6 (Worlds in Motion, 6)

A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces

Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies

Handbook of Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research Methods: A Social Science Perspective

Ethnographies for a Global Century

World Anthropologies in Practice: Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge (ASA Monographs)

Routledge - Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke

Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security - Routledge

A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition (Elgar Original Reference)

Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods And Lived Cultures

The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities