List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Series editors' introduction -- 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 Invention of ethnology -- 7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment : plural approaches to human diversity -- 8. Epilogue: Reception of the German ethnographic tradition
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
