Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa Anthropology like the other animal cults

like the other animal cults

Employing the same failed defense used by many defendants at the Nuremburg Trials

all the way to the Black Gods of the Americas

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1942217855

The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman

Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa Anthropology like the other animal cultsThis book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the case