@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hjm7d.4,
 ISBN = {9780812245622},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hjm7d.4},
 abstract = {If ethnography, defined as discourse on observed manners and customs, has a very long history, anthropology, defined not as the academic discipline established in the twentieth century but as the set of ideas and theories attempting to account for cultural diversity or the unity of the “human,” has an equally long history.¹ Anthropological thinking in the medieval period can be divided into two main discourses, each with its own distinctive assumptions and approaches to the other, the discourse of Christianity and the discourse of civility.² The medieval discourse of civility, derived from the Epicurean tradition of writers such as Lucretius},
 bookauthor = {Shirin A. Khanmohamadi},
 booktitle = {In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages},
 pages = {11--36},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {Conquest, Conversion, Crusade, Salvation: The Discourse of Anthropology and Its Uses in the Medieval Period},
 year = {2014}
}