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A History of Curiosity - The Theory of Travel 1550-1800 (Paperback)
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A History of Curiosity - The Theory of Travel 1550-1800 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Anthropology and History
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The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly
interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to
nineteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership
outside purely academic boundaries. Stagl weaves together a series
of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the
philosophies and the literature of early modern times; links which
have previously only been suspected.
In focusing on the "ars apodemica," or "art of travelling," a body
of formal instruction on how to travel, observe and record the
information gathered, Stagl demonstrates the origins of the
characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern
West.
"A History of Curiosity" examines the early methodology of
anthropological and social research from a critical-historical
perspective. The two principal methods of research, travel and the
questionnaire, are studied in the context of the social conditions
and intellectual trends of early modern times.
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