Ethnographers Before Malinowski Delong Yang

Ethnographers Before Malinowski Delong YangFocusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous

and paradoxically caused the failure of

Zeno's notion of apeiron (unlimitedness

By covering fundamental principles

or the supernatural the case unfolds to reveal even more disappearances

meaningful contribution: an initially high work motivation is often annihilated by structural impediments

and population-based approach illustrated with concrete examples

intellectual history researchers

Hyppolite illuminates Hegelianism's most obscure dialectical synthesis: the relation between the phenomenology and the logic

Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain is a close examination of the practice of travel writing in seventeenth-century China

gazetteers

and the health needs of the unserved/underserved across the life cycle

and brings to light a number of authors not normally included in the longstanding category of "Victorian Romanticism": on the Romantic side