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 Goettingen (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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803255425
eBay Product ID (ePID)
213935985
Product Key Features
Author
Han F. Vermeulen
Publication Name
Before Boas: the Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
746 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Han F. Vermeulen
Series Title
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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