Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology

by Roldan,Arturo Alvarez

• ISBN13: 9780415106559
• ISBN10: 0415106559
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Fieldwork and Footnotesdiscusses general themes within the history of anthropology in Europe and considers recent debates in the history of science on the construction of knowledge. Questioning whether it is possible to identify distinct anthropological traditions within European anthropology, it includes contributions on ethnography and ethnology in Europe, the United States, and Mexico. Fieldwork and Footnotesrepresents current anthropological research in a variety of countries including Germany, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia and Spain.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Origins of Anthropology in Europe	p. 17
Towards a Prehistory of Ethnography	p. 19
Origins and Institutionalization of Ethnography and Ethnology in Europe and the Usa, 1771-1845	p. 39
Discovering the Whole of Humankind	p. 60
Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Work of Adolf Bastian	p. 75
General Bibliography	p. 90
Contributions to European Anthropology	p. 93
Orang Outang and the Definition of Man	p. 95
Bibliography	p. 110
Beyond Evolutionism	p. 113
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz	p. 129
Malinowski and the Origins of the Ethnographic Method	p. 143
Anthropological Traditions in Europe	p. 157
Sweden: Central Ethnology,Peripheral Anthropology	p. 159
The Anthropological Tradition in Slovenia	p. 171
Ethnography and Anthropology	p. 184
Historical Anthropology and the History of Anthropology in Germany	p. 202
Spanish Social Anthropologists in Mexico	p. 219
A History of Paradoxes Anthropologies of Europe	p. 234
Index	p. 247
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