Before Boas - The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Han F. Vermeulen is an alumnus of Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.  Klappentext Han F. Vermeulen is an alumnus of Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.¿ Zusammenfassung Exxmines anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnology and ethnography originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the “natural history of man”. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSeries Editors’ Introduction1. History and Theory of Anthropology and Ethnology: Introduction2. Theory and Practice: G. W. Leibniz and the Advancement of Science in Russia3. Enlightenment and Pietism: D. G. Messerschmidt and the Early Exploration of Siberia4. Ethnography and Empire: G. F. Müller and the Description of Siberian Peoples5. Anthropology and the Orient: C. Niebuhr and the Danish-German Arabia Expedition6. From the Field to the Study: A. L. Schlözer and the German Invention of Völkerkunde7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment: Plural Approaches to Human Diversity8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic TraditionConclusionNotesReferences CitedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Han F Vermeulen, Han F. Vermeulen
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781496203854
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0385-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology; Critical Studies in the Histor; Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology; Critical Studies in the Histor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropologie, Aufklärung (Epoche), Kulturanthropologie, Deutschland, Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Europäische Geschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Philosophie / 17.-18. Jahrhundert, Deutsche Geschichte / 16.-18. Jahrhundert, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union