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 - 9780803255425 AV - GN 308.3.G3 V37.2015 PY - 2015///, CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Boas, Franz, KW - Boas, Frans, KW - Ethnology KW - Germany KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Etnología KW - Alemania KW - Historia KW - Siglo XVIII KW - Anthropology KW - Antropología KW - Enlightenment KW - Ilustración KW - Philosophy KW - Filosofía KW - Europe KW - Europa - KW - Russia KW - Rusia KW - Intellectual life KW - Alemania - KW - Vida intelectual - N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; 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 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"-- ER -