Books by Han F. Vermeulen
Vermeulen, H. F. (redactie) "Recente ontwikkelingen in de Leidse antropologie. Zes lezingen gehou... more Vermeulen, H. F. (redactie) "Recente ontwikkelingen in de Leidse antropologie. Zes lezingen gehouden bij het 12e lustrum van het Interfacultair Ethnologisch Dispuut W.D.O." Leiden: Vakgroep Culturele Antropologie en Sociologie der Niet-Westerse Samenlevingen (ICA Publicatie No. 91), 1991. 106 pp. ill. Met een inleiding door P.E. de Josselin de Jong en foto’s door J.K. Flick.
Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán (eds.) Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History... more Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán (eds.) Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. London/New York: Routledge (EASA Series 9). 1995. xiv + 261 pp. ISBN 0-415-10656-7. [Selection of papers presented at the Workshop on the History of Anthropology in Europe, held at Prague, August 29-30, 1992]
Chapter I: Introduction of "Before Boas" (UNP, 2015)
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment. Lincoln and Lo... more Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment. Lincoln and London, NE: University of Nebraska Press (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology). Hardback, xxvi + 720 pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-5542-5.
The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offeri... more 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 richly illustrated volume presents the first systematic treatment of the history of ethnogra... more This richly illustrated volume presents the first systematic treatment of the history of ethnographic collecting in Indonesia. Written by experienced curators and museum anthropologists, the book reveals a host of hitherto neglected records, uncovering the widely diverging reasons for acquiring and appreciating exotic artefacts from foreign peoples in Nusantara, the emerald string of Indonesian islands scattered over the Indian Ocean.
Sixteen contributors from seven European, North American, and Asian countries shed new light on the centuries-old process of dislocation and appropriation of cultural property from the Indonesian archipelago. In fourteen chapters they go into the motives and methods of individual collectors in Indonesia, and the acquisition policies of museums with a focus on Indonesia. Topics range from the biographies of international collector-personalities to the history of major museum collections from Indonesia. The museums discussed are four in the Netherlands (Leiden, Delft, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam), two in Germany (Cologne and Frankfurt), and one each in Denmark (Copenhagen), Italy (Florence), Switzerland (Basle), the USA (Washington, D.C.), and Indonesia (Jakarta). The book will be required reading for museum curators, historians of anthropology, specialists in material culture, and anyone interested in the arts and crafts of Island Southeast Asia.
This book in two parts aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the history of cultural, socia... more This book in two parts aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the history of cultural, social and physical anthropology in The Netherlands. Experienced anthropologists were invited to describe the history of their own departments and specialisations. The forty-four authors present detailed histories and relate developments as they themselves partly experienced them. In keeping with recent ideas about ethnography, the editors preferred expressions of anthropological practice as performed, rather than constructed and detached de facto histories. The book has two parts. The first part contains institutional histories. The chapters show that each department has developed its own distinctive voice, moving from ethnology (volkenkunde) and cultural anthropology to non-western sociology. The focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an early start in the eighteenth century. The second part presents a wide range of anthropological specialisations. In both parts, attention has been paid to social contexts and dynamic interrelations between anthropology and Dutch society. These histories aim to contribute to disciplinary and social discourse, as much as being part of that discourse. In its turn, we hope that the book will generate new tales. For this reason, special care has been given to present up-to-date bibliographies in order to provide full references to anthropology in its various guises in The Netherlands.
Papers by Han F. Vermeulen
Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores ... more Focusing 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 experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Rosa, Frederico Delgado & Han F. Vermeulen. 2022. “Introduction. Other Argonauts: Chapter... more Rosa, Frederico Delgado & Han F. Vermeulen. 2022. “Introduction. Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography”, Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. New York: Berghahn, pp. 1-43
Other People's Anthropologies
... now appears to have been introduced in 1783 in Vienna, and only later, in 1787, appeared in L... more ... now appears to have been introduced in 1783 in Vienna, and only later, in 1787, appeared in Lausanne (French-speaking Switzerland) and Halle (a university town in eastern Germany). Thus, we are led to the conclusion that the discipline of ethnology or ethnography, as the ...
Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, Paris. , 2019
patrimoines et de l'architecture du Ministère de la culture. (Tous droits réservés). Votre utilis... more patrimoines et de l'architecture du Ministère de la culture. (Tous droits réservés). Votre utilisation de cet article présuppose votre acceptation des conditions d'utilisation des contenus du site de Bérose (www.berose.fr), accessibles ici. Consulté le 5 février 2023 à 11h45min Contrairement à l'anthropologie, qui fut une invention de la Renaissance et de l'humanisme (De Angelis 2010), l'ethnographie et sa soeur cadette, l'ethnologie, furent des produits des Lumières [1]. Leur genèse eut lieu dans le cadre de l'Aufklärung germanique au cours du XVIIIe siècle, comme je l'ai montré dans mon ouvrage de 2015, Before Boas. L'ethnographie en tant que description des peuples (Völker, ou narody) émergea en Sibérie au début des Lumières, tandis que l'ethnologie fut définie un peu plus tardivement à Göttingen, en Allemagne du Nord, et à Vienne, en Autriche, comme étant l'étude des peuples et des nations en général. Toutes les deux, la première de nature descriptive et la deuxième de nature générale et comparative, renvoyaient à un nouveau domaine de recherche que désignent en Allemagne les termes Völker-Beschreibung (1740) et Völkerkunde (1771-1775), tout comme les termes néo-grecs ethnographia (1767) et ethnologia (1781-1783). Il s'agissait de concepts nouveaux qui, ensemble, ciblaient un nouveau champ théorique et pratique dans l'univers académique, impliquant un ou plusieurs programmes de recherche. Dans ce qui suit, je passerai en revue ces développements tout en me focalisant sur les enquêtes menées en Russie au XVIIIe siècle, particulièrement sous l'influence de Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705-1783), l'un des pères fondateurs de l'ethnographie. Je rattacherai ce processus à la fondation de la Kunstkamera en 1714 et de l'Académie des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, en 1724-1725. Ma thèse consiste à dire que l'ethnographie est née en Sibérie des échanges très fertiles noués entre, d'un côté, des historiens et des naturalistes germanophones et, de l'autre, des savants et des administrateurs russes. Je me pencherai sur
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Books by Han F. Vermeulen
Sixteen contributors from seven European, North American, and Asian countries shed new light on the centuries-old process of dislocation and appropriation of cultural property from the Indonesian archipelago. In fourteen chapters they go into the motives and methods of individual collectors in Indonesia, and the acquisition policies of museums with a focus on Indonesia. Topics range from the biographies of international collector-personalities to the history of major museum collections from Indonesia. The museums discussed are four in the Netherlands (Leiden, Delft, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam), two in Germany (Cologne and Frankfurt), and one each in Denmark (Copenhagen), Italy (Florence), Switzerland (Basle), the USA (Washington, D.C.), and Indonesia (Jakarta). The book will be required reading for museum curators, historians of anthropology, specialists in material culture, and anyone interested in the arts and crafts of Island Southeast Asia.
Papers by Han F. Vermeulen
Sixteen contributors from seven European, North American, and Asian countries shed new light on the centuries-old process of dislocation and appropriation of cultural property from the Indonesian archipelago. In fourteen chapters they go into the motives and methods of individual collectors in Indonesia, and the acquisition policies of museums with a focus on Indonesia. Topics range from the biographies of international collector-personalities to the history of major museum collections from Indonesia. The museums discussed are four in the Netherlands (Leiden, Delft, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam), two in Germany (Cologne and Frankfurt), and one each in Denmark (Copenhagen), Italy (Florence), Switzerland (Basle), the USA (Washington, D.C.), and Indonesia (Jakarta). The book will be required reading for museum curators, historians of anthropology, specialists in material culture, and anyone interested in the arts and crafts of Island Southeast Asia.