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The liminality of man: astronomy and the birth of anthropology in the eighteenth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2010)
This essay argues that modern cultural anthropology is a product of early-modern
astronomical science. Analyzing a variety of texts from the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries, this text shows how the
conceptual ...