Eine Geschichte der Neugier Die Kunst des Reisens 1550-1800

• Main Author: Stagl, Justin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Cultural studies; travel, the survey, the collection, socio-cultural sciences; Reise, Umfrage, Sammeln, Renaissance, Sozialwissenschaften, Kulturwissenschaften
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My book deals for the first time comprehensively with the techniques (and methodologies) of socio-cultural research in pre-modern societies. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it holds that some form of empirical research in these domains must have been present in all human groups, and every type of so...