Fieldwork and Footnotes
Subtitle: Studies in the History of European Anthropology
By: edited by Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Arturo Alvarez Roldán
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 18, 1995
Place of publication: London and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415106566
First sentence: In 1962 A. Irving Hallowell stimulated a conference on the History of Anthropology sponsored by the Social Science Research Council in New York (Hymes 1962).
Description: This is the first volume on the history of European anthropology and ethnology to appear in the English-speaking world. Although some books covering the history of anthropology have been published in Europe (Mühlmann 1968, Poirier 1969, Moravia 1970, Kuper 1983, 1988), and in France (where volumes were edited by Rupp-Eisenreich 1984 and Blanckaert 1985), none of them were the product of a symposium or session within an international framework.
Notes: Fieldwork and Footnotes reflects the great diversity of anthropological traditions in Europe, within an invaluable comparative and institutional framework. The editors and contributors provide an overview of current themes in the history of anthropology in Europe, themes which are central to many debates in the history of the social and human sciences in general. They examine a wide variety of anthropological impulses within Europe from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Slovenia and Romania, as well as in Mexico. This comprehensive account of the European anthropological traditions will be of great interest to historians of science as well as to anthropologists and ethnologists.
Table of contents: label: Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán
title: Introduction: the history of anthropology and Europe
pagenum: 1; label: Michael Harbsmeier
title: Towards a prehistory of ethnography: early modern German travel writing as traditions of knowledge
pagenum: 19; label: Han F. Vermeulen
title: Origins and institutionalization of ethnography and ethnology in Europe and the USA, 1771-1845
pagenum: 39; label: Gheorghita Geana
title: Discovering the whole of humankind: the genesis of anthropology through the Hegelian looking-glass
pagenum: 60; label: Klaus-Peter Koepping
title: Enlightenment and Romanticism in the work of Adolf Bastian: the historical roots of anthropology in the nineteenth century
pagenum: 75; label: Alan Barnard
title: Orang Outang and the definition of Man: the legacy of Lord Monboddo
pagenum: 95; label: Jan J. de Wolf
title: Beyond evolutionism: the work of H.J. Nieboer on slavery, 1900-1910
pagenum: 113; label: Peter Skalník
title: Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: science versus art in the conceptualization of culture
pagenum: 129; label: Arturo Alvarez Roldán
title: Malinowski and the origins of the ethnographic method
pagenum: 143; label: Tomas Gerholm
title: Sweden: central ethnology, peripheral anthropology
pagenum: 159; label: Zmago Smitek and Bozidar Jezernik
title: The anthropological tradition in Slovenia
pagenum: 171; label: Zbigniew Jasiewicz and David Slattery
title: Ethnography and anthropology: the case of Polish ethnology
pagenum: 184; label: Nikola S. Bock
title: Historical anthropology and the history of anthropology in Germany
pagenum: 202; label: Enrique Hugo García Valencia
title: Spanish social anthropologists in Mexico: anthropology in exile and anthropology of exiles
pagenum: 219; label: Thomas K. Schippers
title: A history of paradoxes: anthropologies of Europe
pagenum: 234; title: Index
pagenum: 247