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Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment /

"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"--

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Vermeulen, Han F., 1952- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Collection:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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. Müller 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. Schlözer and the German Invention of Völkerkunde
  • 7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment : Plural Approaches to Human Diversity
  • 8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic Tradition.