Herrera, A.de (English spelling) HerreraAde

Japanese: Herrera,A.de(英語表記)HerreraAde
Herrera, A.de (English spelling) HerreraAde

… Acosta's major work, Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590), comprehensively describes the nature and culture of the Americas. It includes valuable descriptions of the indigenous cultures of Mexico and Peru, and is also significant in terms of intellectual history, as it attempts to theoretically place the "New World," then called the Indies, within the known world history. It is notable for being far more systematic and objective than the histories of the Indies written by his contemporaries G. F. Oviedo and Antonio de Herrera. In this book and in De procuranda indorum salute (1588), Acosta also attempts to classify the cultural spheres of various ethnic groups and conceive a kind of theory of developmental stages on a global scale, which is noteworthy as a pioneering attempt in sociological and anthropological studies. …

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… アコスタの主著《新大陸自然文化史Historia natural y moral de las Indias》(1590)は,アメリカ大陸の自然と文化を総合的に述べたもので,メキシコ,ペルーの原住民文化に関する貴重な記述を含むと同時に,当時インディアスと呼ばれた“新世界”を,既知の世界誌の体系の中に理論的に位置づけようとする思想史的意義も大きかった。同時代のG.F.オビエドやアントニオ・デ・エレラAntonio de Herreraのインディアス史に比べて,はるかに系統的客観的である点が特色である。また,同書および《インディアスにおける福音伝道論De procuranda indorum salute》(1588)において,アコスタは諸民族の文化圏分類を試み,一種の世界的規模の発展段階説を構想していることも,社会学・人類学的に先駆的な試みとして注目される。…

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