Ippolito Desideri: Anthropologist of Modernity

Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote that "from the scientific point of view, missionaries gathered everything that was worth preserving" of the Otherness—and about the Otherness—that they encountered. This is a valid reason to reassess the missionaries' legacy as the first anthropologists of mo...

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Main Author: Gasbarro, Nicola (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Hawaii Press [2018]
In: Buddhist Christian studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 38, Pages: 83-95
Further subjects:B Civilization
B Buddhism
B Comparison
B Modernity
B Desideri
B Religion
B Anthropology
B Christianity
B Missions
B Tibet
B compatibility
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