Fieldwork and footnotes : studies in the history of European anthropology / edited by Hans F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vermeulen, Hans.

Alvarez Roldán, Arturo, 1963-

European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Europe--History.

Anthropology.

Ethnology--Europe--History.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together 14 studies of the history of European anthropology from the 17th century onwards, each of which have great relevance for current debates within the discipline.

Contents:

Cover; Fieldwork and footnotes: Studies in the history of European anthropology; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The history of anthropology and Europe; Part I The origins of anthropology in Europe; 1 Towards a prehistory of ethnography: Early modern German travel writing as traditions of knowledge; 2 Origins and institutionalization of ethnography and ethnology in Europe and the USA, 1771-1845; 3 Discovering the whole of humankind: The genesis of anthropology through the Hegelian looking-glass

4 Enlightenment and Romanticism in the work of Adolf Bastian: The historical roots of anthropology in the nineteenth centuryPart II Contributions to European anthropology; 5 Orang Outang and the definition of Man: The legacy of Lord Monboddo; 6 Beyond evolutionism: The work of H.J.Nieboer on slavery, 1900-1910; 7 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: Science versus art in the conceptualization of culture; 8 Malinowski and the origins of the ethnographic method; Part III Anthropological traditions in Europe; 9 Sweden: central ethnology, peripheral anthropology

10 The anthropological tradition in Slovenia11 Ethnography and anthropology: The case of Polish ethnology; 12 Historical anthropology and the history of anthropology in Germany; 13 Spanish social anthropologists in Mexico: Anthropology in exile and anthropology of exiles; 14 A history of paradoxes: Anthropologies of Europe; Index

Notes:

"European Association of Social Anthropologists."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781134843954

113484395X

9781134843961

1134843968

9780585447971

0585447977

9780203426579

0203426576

9781280320323

128032032X

OCLC:

52420208