1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783862503321

Titolo

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

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOMIL0351185

Autore

Poston, Timothy

Titolo

Catastrophe theory and its applications / Tim Poston, Ian Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mineola (NY), : Dover, 1996

ISBN

048669271X

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 491 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Dover books on advanced mathematics

Altri autori (Persone)

Stewart, Ian <1945-    >

Disciplina

514

514.744

Soggetti

Teoria delle catastrofi

Collocazione

SALA DING 514                     POS.ca

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Ripr. facs dell'ed.: London : Pitman, 1978.