05048nam 2200733Ia 450 991080819100332120200520144314.01-136-64536-50-203-06604-91-283-84210-61-136-64529-210.4324/9780203066041 (CKB)2670000000309079(EBL)1075273(OCoLC)821176071(SSID)ssj0000783445(PQKBManifestationID)11491770(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783445(PQKBWorkID)10760173(PQKB)10700201(MiAaPQ)EBC1075273(Au-PeEL)EBL1075273(CaPaEBR)ebr10630912(CaONFJC)MIL415460(OCoLC)900236204(OCoLC)32949666(FINmELB)ELB141184(EXLCZ)99267000000030907919950810d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA History of curiosity the theory of travel, 1550-1800 /Justin Stagl1st ed.Australia Harwood Academic Publishersc19951 online resource (357 p.)Studies in anthropology and history,1055-2464 ;v. 13Description based upon print version of record.1-138-17722-9 3-7186-5621-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Cover; A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel 1550-1800; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One The Methodizing of Travel in the Sixteenth Century: A Tale of Three Cities; From Pilgrimage to Educational Journey; Travel Reports; Programmes for the Improvement of Travel; The First Methodologists of Travel; A Tale of Three Cities: Venice, Basel, Paris; The Art of Travel; Further Developments; Postscriptum: On the Practical Utilization of the Ars Apodemica; Two Rerum Memoria: Early Modern Enquiries and Documentation Centres; Preliminary RemarkTravel, Correspondence, Documentation and the 'Res Publica Literaria""The Handling of Empirical Knowledge; The Documentation of Knowledge; The Acquisition and Processing of New Empirical Knowledge; Three Imagines Mundi: Allegories of the Continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment; Imagines Mundi; An Imago Mundi of the Baroque; An Imago Mundi of the Enlightenment; Conclusion; Four The Man Who Called Himself George Psalmanazar or: The Problems of the Authenticity of Ethnographic Description; A Description of Formosa; From the Confessions of an ImposterAn Analysis of ""The Description of Formosa""The Problem of the Authenticity of Ethnographic Description; Five Josephinism and Social Research: The ""Patriotic Traveller' of Count Leopold Berchtold; Patriotism, Pietism, Philanthropism, Josephinism; A Josephinist Philanthropist; A Series of Questions for a Patriotic Traveller; A Point of No Return; Six August Ludwig Schlozer and the Study of Mankind According to Peoples; On the Early History of ""Ethnography"", ""Ethnology"" and Related Disciplinal Names; The University of Gottingen; Universal History; The Concept of ""People""The General History of the NorthA Discussion of Schlozer's New Terms; Conclusion; Seven From the Private to the Sponsored Traveller: Volney's Reform of Travel Instruction and the French Revolution; The Making of a Traveller; Travel and the Questionnaire During the Revolution; From the Art of Travel to Ethnographic Methodology; Travel and the Questionnaire During the Directory; Travel and the Questionnaire During the Consulate and Empire; Postscript: Notes and Queries, or Travel arid the Questionnaire in 19th and 20th Century Ethnographic Research; References; IndexThis volume examines the early modern methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The two principal methods of research, travel and the questionnaire, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times. The author weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times; links which have previously been suspected. In focusing on the ""ars apodemica"" or ""art of travelling"", a body of formal instruction on how toStudies in anthropology and history ;v. 13.1055-2464.TravelHistoryEthnologyMethodologyHistorySocial sciencesMethodologyHistoryTravelHistory.EthnologyMethodologyHistory.Social sciencesMethodologyHistory.910.9Stagl Justin888940MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808191003321A History of curiosity4030516UNINA