ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |75 pages
The origins of anthropology in Europe
chapter |20 pages
Towards a prehistory of ethnography
Early modern German travel writing as traditions of knowledge
chapter |15 pages
Discovering the whole of humankind
The genesis of anthropology through the Hegelian looking-glass
chapter |17 pages
Enlightenment and Romanticism in the work of Adolf Bastian
The historical roots of anthropology in the nineteenth century
part |63 pages
Contributions to European anthropology
chapter |14 pages
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Science versus art in the conceptualization of culture
part |90 pages
Anthropological traditions in Europe
chapter |15 pages
Spanish social anthropologists in Mexico
Anthropology in exile and anthropology of exiles
