Title Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment / Han F. Vermeulen.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 718 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Critical studies in the history of anthropology
	Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject	Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 -- Influence.
	Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
	Ethnology -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
	Ethnology.
	Germany.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
	Anthropology.
	Enlightenment -- Germany.
	Enlightenment.
	Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	Intellectual life.
	Ethnology -- Philosophy.
	Ethnology -- Philosophy.
	Ethnology -- Europe -- History.
	Europe.
	Ethnology -- Russia -- History.
	Russia.
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Vermeulen, Han F., 1952- Before Boas. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015] 9780803255425 (DLC) 2015012611 (OCoLC)894747582
ISBN	9780803277403 (electronic book)
	0803277407 (electronic book)
	9780803277380 (electronic book)
	0803277385 (electronic book)
	9780803255425
	080325542X
	9780803277397 (mobi)

Title Before Boas : the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment / Han F. Vermeulen.

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