Examines some of the earliest attempts to understand other peoples in Herodotus and Tacitus and looks at Durkheim's view that religion is fundamentally about society. We consider as well the encounter of Spanish missionaries with South America, of Jesuits with the traditions of China, and works including Augustine, Joinville's history of the Crusades, Locke, William James and modern anthropology. Carries social sciences divisional credit in CAS.