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Humankinds - The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies (Hardcover)
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Humankinds - The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies (Hardcover)
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Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental
European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of
philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring
concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American
scholarship almost exclusively associates anthropology with the
investigation of cultural and ethnic differences (cultural
anthropology). How these two main traditions (and their
'derivations' such as literary anthropology, historical
anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, intercultural studies) relate
to each other is a matter of debate. Both, however, have their
roots in the path-breaking changes that occurred within sixteenth
and early seventeenth-century culture and scientific discourse. It
was in fact during this period that the term anthropology first
acquired the meanings on which its current usage is based. The
Renaissance did not 'invent' the human. But the period that gave
rise to 'humanism' witnessed an unprecedented diversification of
the concept that was at its very core. The question of what defines
the human became increasingly contested as new developments like
the emergence of the natural sciences, religious pluralisation, as
well as colonial expansion, were undermining old certainties. The
proliferation of doctrines of the human in the early modern age
bears out the assumption that anthropology is a discipline of
crisis, seeking to establish sets of common values and discursive
norms in situations when authority finds itself under pressure.
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