Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

fieldwork And Footnotes Discusses 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 Footnotes Represents Current Anthropological Research In A Variety Of Countries Including Germany, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia And Spain. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Notes on contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction The history of anthropology and Europe......Page 16 Towards a prehistory of ethnography: early modern German travel writing as traditions of knowledge......Page 34 Origins and institutionalization of ethnography and ethnology in Europe and the USA, 1771 1845......Page 54 Discovering the whole of humankind: the genesis of anthropology through the Hegelian looking-glass......Page 75 Enlightenment and Romanticism in the work of Adolf Bastian: the historical roots of anthropology in the nineteenth century......Page 90 Orang Outang and the definition of Man: the legacy of Lord Monboddo......Page 110 Beyond evolutionism: the work of H.J.Nieboer on slavery, 1900 1910......Page 128 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: science versus art in the conceptualization of culture......Page 144 Malinowski and the origins of the ethnographic method......Page 158 Sweden: central ethnology, peripheral anthropology......Page 174 The anthropological tradition in Slovenia......Page 186 Ethnography and anthropology: the case of Polish ethnology......Page 199 Historical anthropology and the history of anthropology in Germany......Page 217 Spanish social anthropologists in Mexico: anthropology in exile and anthropology of exiles......Page 234 A history of paradoxes: anthropologies of Europe......Page 249 Index......Page 262 Fieldwork and Footnotes discusses 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 Footnotes represents current anthropological research in a variety of countries including Germany, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia and Spain. The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Slovenia and Romania, as well as the influence of Spanish anthropologists in Mexico to provide a comprehensive overview of European anthropological traditions. This book brings together 14 studies of the history of European anthropology from the 17th century onwards, each of which have great relevance for current debates within the discipline. 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).