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A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel, 1550-1800. (book reviews)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December, 1996 by Stocking, George W., Jr.
>For anyone interested in the longue duree of anthropological discourse - or more generally, of the human sciences - this is an absolutely essential work. Not given myself to the laborious elaboration of theoretical or interpretive categories, I confess to having been slightly put off by the introductory essay, 'On the archaeology of social research' in which (without reference to Foucault) terms are defined and alternative research methods enumerated in a quasi-evolutionary progressivist framework: 'the phenomenology of the archaic and primitive survey may be presented according to the ...
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