Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment
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"
History
1 online resource (747 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9780803255425, 9780803277397, 9780803277403, 080325542X, 0803277393, 0803277407
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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
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