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History of Curiosity.
This volume examines the early modern methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The two principal methods of research, travel and the questionnaire, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel 1550-1800; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One The Methodizing of Travel in the Sixteenth Century: A Tale of Three Cities; From Pilgrimage to Educational Journey; Travel Reports; Programmes for the Improvement of Travel; The First Methodologists of Travel; A Tale of Three Cities: Venice, Basel, Paris; The Art of Travel; Further Developments; Postscriptum: On the Practical Utilization of the Ars Apodemica; Two Rerum Memoria: Early Modern Enquiries and Documentation Centres; Preliminary Remark.
- Travel, Correspondence, Documentation and the 'Res Publica Literaria""The Handling of Empirical Knowledge; The Documentation of Knowledge; The Acquisition and Processing of New Empirical Knowledge; Three Imagines Mundi: Allegories of the Continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment; Imagines Mundi; An Imago Mundi of the Baroque; An Imago Mundi of the Enlightenment; Conclusion; Four The Man Who Called Himself George Psalmanazar or: The Problems of the Authenticity of Ethnographic Description; A Description of Formosa; From the Confessions of an Imposter.
- An Analysis of ""The Description of Formosa""The Problem of the Authenticity of Ethnographic Description; Five Josephinism and Social Research: The ""Patriotic Traveller' of Count Leopold Berchtold; Patriotism, Pietism, Philanthropism, Josephinism; A Josephinist Philanthropist; A Series of Questions for a Patriotic Traveller; A Point of No Return; Six August Ludwig Schlozer and the Study of Mankind According to Peoples; On the Early History of ""Ethnography"", ""Ethnology"" and Related Disciplinal Names; The University of Gottingen; Universal History; The Concept of ""People""
- The General History of the NorthA Discussion of Schlozer's New Terms; Conclusion; Seven From the Private to the Sponsored Traveller: Volney's Reform of Travel Instruction and the French Revolution; The Making of a Traveller; Travel and the Questionnaire During the Revolution; From the Art of Travel to Ethnographic Methodology; Travel and the Questionnaire During the Directory; Travel and the Questionnaire During the Consulate and Empire; Postscript: Notes and Queries, or Travel arid the Questionnaire in 19th and 20th Century Ethnographic Research; References; Index.