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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783862503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• ISBN: 1-134-84395-X; 1-134-84396-8; 0-585-44797-7; 0-203-42657-6; 1-280-32032-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Alvarez RoldanArturo <1963->; VermeulenHan F. <1952->
• Disciplina: 306/.094
• Soggetti: Anthropology - Europe - History; Ethnology - Europe - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "European Association of Social Anthropologists."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.