TY - BOOK AU - Vermeulen,Han F. TI - Before Boas: the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment T2 - Critical studies in the history of anthropology SN - 9780803277403 AV - GN308 .B446 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Boas, Franz, KW - Ethnology KW - Germany KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Anthropology KW - Enlightenment KW - Philosophy KW - Europe KW - Russia KW - Boas, Franz KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1016571&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -