: the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment
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\ Han F. Vermeulen
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Lincoln
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: University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxvi, 720 p.
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;24 cm.
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Critical studies in the history of anthropology
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Index
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Bibliography
CONTENTS NOTE
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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. M�uller 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. Schl�ozer and the German Invention of V�olkerkunde -- 7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment : Plural Approaches to Human Diversity -- 8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic Tradition.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 starting in 1886"--