Han F. Vermeulen

Before Boas (eBook, ePUB)

The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the "natural history of man." Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how "ethnography" originated as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as "ethnology" by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by researchers in other countries.Before Boas argues that anthropology and ethnology were separate sciences during the Age of Reason, studying racial and ethnic diversity, respectively. Ethnography and ethnology focused not on "other" cultures but on all peoples of all eras. Following G. W. Leibniz, researchers in these fields categorized peoples primarily according to their languages. Franz Boas professionalized the holistic study of anthropology from the 1880s into the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803277380
• Artikelnr.: 43811832

Autorenporträt

Han F. Vermeulen is an alumnus of Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Series Editors’ Introduction
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
Conclusion
Notes
References Cited
Index