Han F. Vermeulen is an alumnus of Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.

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Han F. Vermeulen is an alumnus of Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.

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 German Invention of Völkerkunde

7. Anthropology in the German Enlightenment: Plural Approaches to Human Diversity

8. Epilogue: Reception of the German Ethnographic Tradition

Conclusion

Notes

References Cited

Index