Before Boas : : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment / / Han F. Vermeulen.
"An extensive study of the emergence of ethnology and ethnography, and how theories in Europe and Russia during the eighteenth century experienced a paradigm shift with the work of Franz Boas starting in 1886"--
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| Superior document: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lincoln : : University of Nebraska Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (747 pages) :; illustrations, portraits. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. History and Theory of Anthropology and Ethnology : Introduction
- 2. Theory and Practice : G.W. Leibniz and the Advancement of Science in Russia
- 3. Enlightenment and Pietism : D.G. Messerschmidt and the Early Exploration of Siberia
- 4. Ethnography and Empire : G.F. Muller and the Description of Siberian Peoples
- 5. Anthropology and the Orient : C. Niebuhr and the Danish-German Arabia Expedition
- 6. From the Field to the Study : A.L. Schlozer and the German Invention of Volkerkunde
- 7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment : Plural Approaches to Human Diversity
- 8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic Tradition.