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

by Peter Mason

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190777436X
• ISBN13: 9781907774362
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"