Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment / Han F. Vermeulen.

By: Vermeulen, Han F, 1952- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical studies in the history of anthropologyPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (747 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803277397; 9780803277403Subject(s): Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 -- Influence | Ethnology -- Germany -- History -- 18th century | Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 18th century | Enlightenment -- Germany | Ethnology -- Philosophy | Ethnology -- Europe -- History | Ethnology -- Russia -- History | Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.0943/09033 LOC classification: GN308.3.G3 | V37 2015Online resources: Click to View
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.
Scope and content: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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