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Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment
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"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 start...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Han F. Vermeulen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (747 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0803277407, 9780803255425, 0803277393, 0803277385, 9780803277403, 080325542X, 9780803277397, 9780803277380
- OCLC
- ocn911492562, ocn894747582
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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