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WinneroftheAmericanHistoricalAssociation'sHerbertEugeneBoltonMemorialPrize,1983
Thisbookgivesanewinterpretationofthereceptionofthenewworldbytheold.
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isthefirstin-depthstudyofthepre-EnlightenmentmethodsbywhichEuropeansattemptedtodescribeandclassifytheAmericanIndianandhissociety.Between1512and1724-asimpledeterministviewofhumansocietywasreplacedbyamoresophisticatedrelativistapproach.AnthonyPagdenusesnewmethodsoftechnicalanalysis,alreadydevelopedinphilosophyandanthropology,toexaminefourgroupsofwriterswhoanalysedIndianculture:thesixteenth-centurytheologian,FranciscodeVitoria,andhisfollowers;the'championoftheIndians'BartolomedeLasCasas;andthe]esuithistorians
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deAcostaandJosephFrancoisLafitau.DrPagdenexplainsthesourcesfortheirtheoriesandhowtheseconditionedtheirobservations.Healsoexaminesforthefirsttimethekeytermsineachwriter'svocabulary-wordssuchas'barbarian'and'civil'-andtheassumptionsthatlaybeneaththem.Followingitspublication,
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wasawardedtheHerbertEugeneBoltonMemorialPrizefor1983bytheAmericanHistoricalAssociation.Forthispaperbackedition,DrPagdenhasupdatedhisintroductionandbibliography,andaddedachapteron]osephFrancoisLafitau.'Pagden'ssubtleaccount...isamodelforthehistoryofanthropologyaltogether.Itshows,too,howconstantsomeofthesubject'scentralconceptionshavebeenoverthesucceedingfourhundredyears.'
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,...inthesubtletyofitsanalysisandtherichnessofitsdetail
TheFallofNaturalMan
surpassesallpreviouswritingsonthesubjectinanylanguage'.
TheTimesHigherEducationSupplement
'ThestrengthandnoveltyofthebookconsistsintheseriousnesswithwhichPagdenreconstructstheclassificatorytheoriesofsixteenth-centuryIberiansandusesthemtoexplainmuchoftheirwritingontheIndians.'
PoliticalStudies
'WemustthankAnthonyPagdenforhaving,inthiseruditeandwell-writtenstudy,demonstratedinadefinitivemannertheimportanceoftheethnologicalcontributionofsixteenth-centurySpanishauthors.'•
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