Han F. Vermeulen

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Han F. Vermeulen (2013)

Han F. Vermeulen (actually Hendrik Frederik Vermeulen ; * 1952 in The Hague ) is a Dutch historian of science and ethnologist specializing in the history of ethnology and anthropology , especially during the German and Russian Enlightenment .

Life

Vermeulen studied cultural anthropology at the University of Leiden , Faculty of Social Sciences. In 2008 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the origin of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment in the context of German-Russian relations. Since 2006 he has been associated with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) in changing positions . From 2011 to 2012 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He lives and works in Halle (Saale).

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Vermeulen works on the history of ethnography , ethnology and anthropology since the 18th century in Europe, Asia and America. He publishes his research results in specialist journals and books, which appear mainly in English and German. Since 1992, Vermeulen has demonstrated that the emergence of the subject of ethnology in Germany preceded the establishment of the subjects of social anthropology in Great Britain and cultural anthropology in the USA. With his findings, he criticizes the prevailing opinion in specialist history that ethnology emerged in the 19th century with Edward B. Tylor in Great Britain and Franz Boas in the United States. According to Vermeulen's research, ethnography and ethnology were founded by German-speaking historians in Siberia ( Surgut 1740), Hanover (Göttingen 1771–78) and Austria (Vienna 1781–83). The first ethnographic museum was opened in Russia in 1836, followed by the first chair of ethnography and linguistics, established in St. Petersburg in 1837. Even before he emigrated to the USA, during his studies and first years of research in Germany, Franz Boas benefited from the anti-racist ethnology of Adolf Bastian and his colleagues in setting up the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin. Vermeulen's work on this subject, Before Boas, The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment , received many positive reviews and in 2017 Vermeulen received the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize for it.

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Books
Essays
  • The Emergence of 'Ethnography' around 1770 in Göttingen. In: George W. Stocking Jr. (ed.) 1992: History of Anthropology Newsletter, XIX (2), December, pp. 6-9.
  • Early history of ethnology or ethnography in Germany 1771–1791. In: Matthias S. Laubscher & Bertram Turner (eds.): Ethnology Conference 1991, Volume 1: Systematic Ethnology. Munich 1994: Akademischer Verlag Munich, pp. 327-344.
  • Origins and Institutionalization of Ethnography and Ethnology in Europe and the USA, 1771-1845. In: Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán (eds.) Fieldwork and Footnotes. Studies in the History of European Anthropology. London / New York 1995: Routledge (EASA Series 9), pp. 39-59.
  • Anthropology in Colonial Contexts: The Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733-1743) and the Danish-German Arabia Expedition (1761-1767). In: Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu (eds.) Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania. Richmond 1999: Curzon Press (Anthropology of Asia 4), pp. 13-39.
  • The German Invention of Völkerkunde: Ethnological Discourse in Europe and Asia, 1740–1798. In: Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore (eds.) The German Invention of Race. Albany, NY 2006: State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-6677-9 , pp. 123-145.
  • Göttingen and Völkerkunde: Ethnology and Ethnography in the German Enlightenment, 1740–1815. In: Hans Erich Bödeker , Philippe Büttgen and Michel Espagne (eds.) The science of people in Göttingen around 1800. Scientific practices, institutional geography, European networks. Göttingen 2008: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (publications by the Max Planck Institute for History), pp. 199–230.
  • From the description of peoples to ethnology. Ethnological views of Gerhard Friedrich Müller and August Ludwig Schlözer. In: Erich Donnert (Ed.) Europe in the early modern times. Festschrift for Günter Mühlpfordt. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008: Böhlau Verlag, Volume 7, pp. 781–801.
  • From empiricism to theory: German-speaking ethnography and ethnology from Gerhard Friedrich Müller to Adolf Bastian (1740–1881). Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 2009, 134 (2): 253–266.
  • Göttingen et la "science des peuples": Ethnology and ethnography in les Lumières allemandes . In: Hans Erich Bödeker, Philippe Büttgen et Michel Espagne (dir.), Göttingen vers 1800. L'Europe des sciences de l'homme. Paris 2010: Éditions du Cerf (Bibliothèque franco-allemande), pp. 237–274.
  • Linguistics and ethnology - the contribution of historical-comparative linguistics by GW Leibniz to the development of ethnology in the 18th century . Halle (Saale): Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 2011 No. 133 ( online ).
  • Linguistics and ethnology - the contribution of historical-comparative linguistics by GW Leibniz to the development of ethnology in the 18th century . Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Preprint 423. 2012 (slightly expanded version of Working Paper No. 133 from the MPI for Social Anthropology; online ).
  • Peter Simon Pallas and the ethnography of Siberia in the 18th century. In: Erich Kasten (Ed.) Travel to the edge of the Russian Empire. The scientific development of the North Pacific coastal areas in the 18th and. 19th century. Fürstenberg / Havel: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2013, pp. 47–75. on-line
  • Halle and ethnology in the 18th century (abstract). In: AP Jarkov et al. (eds.) "From Siberia - 2013": Nauchno-informatsionnii sbornik. ["From Siberia - 2013": Collection of Scientific Information] Tyumen: Izdatelstvo Tjumenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2014, p. 175.
  • Halle and the beginnings of ethnology in the 18th century. In: AP Jarkov et al. (eds.) "From Siberia - 2013": Nauchno-informatsionnii sbornik. ["From Siberia - 2013": Collection of Scientific Information] Tyumen: Izdatelstvo Tjumenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2014, pp. 136-143.
  • Obituary for Dr. Norbert Klatt (1949-2015) religious scholar and humanities scholar. CV and list of publications , 2015, 11 pp. on-line
  • Leipzig Ethnology Centenary: University of Leipzig, 6-7 November 2014. Anthropology Today 31 (2), April 2015, pp. 19-20.
  • Jos Platenkamp and the Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology. In: Laila Prager, Michael Prager and Guido Sprenger (eds.) Parts and Wholes: Essays on Social Morphology, Cosmology, and Exchange in Honor of JDM Platenkamp. Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 23-46; Publications of JDM Platenkamp, ​​2016, pp. 77-82.
  • Anthropology in the Netherlands. Chapter on "Netherlands, the, anthropology in" in the International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Hilary Callan, Editor-in-Chief. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. At the invitation of Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Brazil), and Michelle McFadden, Project Manager, 2016, 22 pp.
  • The History of Anthropology between Expansion and Pluralism. History of Anthropology Newsletter 41 (2017): online Published online on February 1, 2017, 2 pp.
  • History of Anthropology: Why, How, and For Whom? History of Anthropology Newsletter 41 (2017: online Published online February 24, 2017). 5 pp.
  • History of Anthropology Network (HOAN). European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) online Published online 8 March 2017, 2 pp.
  • 'En mémoire de René Schillings - 1950-1979' (In memory of René Schillings). German translation of Preface by Miep en Harry Schillings. In: Arnold Wentholt, 2017 Glittering as Gold: The Harry and Miep Schillings Collection of West and Central African Bronze Adornments. Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2017, p. 11. 200 pp. ill.
  • German Ethnological Society changes its name during a highly contested vote. German Ethnological Society Biennial Conference, Berlin, 4-7 October 2017. Anthropology Today 34 (1): 19-20. February 1, 2018.
  • History of Anthropology and a Name Change at the German Ethnological Society Meeting in Berlin: Conference Report. History of Anthropology Newsletter 42 (2018: online . Published online 2018 February 22.) 9 pp.
  • Eight Ways to Catch a Seal: Fieldwork in Siberia in the Age of Enlightenment. In: Arthur MacGregor (ed.) Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Leiden / Boston: Brill (Emergence of Natural History 2), 2018, pp. 393-440.
  • Apresentação [recommendation / recommendation] in Renate Brigitte Viertler, Os Fundamentos da Teoria Antropológica Alemã: Etnologia e Antropologia em Países de Língua Alemã: 1700–1950. [The Foundations of German Anthropological Theory: Ethnology and Anthropology from 1700 to 1950] São Paulo: Editora Annablume, 2018, pp. 13-14.
  • The displacement of history by ethnologists as a social problem. In: Blog "What's in a name - What does the renaming of the German Society for Ethnology stand for?" on-line
  • "Gerhard Friedrich Müller and the Genesis of Ethnography in Siberia." Этнография / Etnografia , 2018 (1): 40-63. 4 pictures and 1 card. Editor in Chief Andrei V. Golovnev, Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (art camera), St. Petersburg.
  • "Netherlands, Anthropology in the." In: Hilary Callan (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018, vol. 8: 4219-4312.
  • "History of Anthropology Panels at EASA 2018: Conference Report." History of Anthropology Newsletter , November 29, 2018.
as editor
  • Recente ontwikkelingen in de Leidse anthropologie. Zes lezingen gehouden bij het 12e lustrum van het Interfacultair Ethnologische Dispuut WDO Edited by HF Vermeulen. Leiden: Vakgroep Culturele Antropologie en Sociologie der Niet-Westerse Samenlevingen (ICA Publicatie No. 91), 1991. 106 pp. ill. ISBN 90-6624-094-6 .
  • with Arturo Alvarez Roldán: Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology . London / New York: Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0-415-10656-7 .
  • with Reimar Schefold : Treasure Hunting? Collectors and Collections of Indonesian Artefacts (= Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden. No. 30). Leiden: Research School CNWS / National Museum of Ethnology, 2002, ISBN 90-5789-078-X .
  • with Jean Kommers: Tales from Academia: History of Anthropology in the Netherlands [1770–2000] . 2 volumes. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, 2002, ISBN 3-88156-763-1 , ISBN 3-88156-764-X .
  • Gregory Forth (ed.): L. Fontijne (1902–1968), Guardians of the Land in Kelimado. Louis Fontijne's Study of a Colonial District in eastern Indonesia (= Translation Series. Vol. 27). Edited and translated by Gregory Forth, with the assistance of Han F. Vermeulen. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004, ISBN 90-6718-223-0 .
  • AW (Bert) van den Hoek: Caturmāsa: Celebrations of Death in Kathmandu, Nepal. Edited by JC Heesterman, Bal Gopal Shrestha, Han F. Vermeulen and Sjoerd M. Zanen. Leiden: Research School CNWS (CNWS Publications 133), 2004. ISBN 90-5789-098-4 . Second, slightly revised and updated edition with a foreword by David N. Gellner, Kathmandu: Vajra Books, 2014. ISBN 978-9937-623-21-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Han F. Vermeulen's website at historyofanthropology.eu
  2. ↑ Han F. Vermeulen's website at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
  3. ^ Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment, hardcover
  4. ^ Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment, Paperback
personal data
SURNAME Vermeulen, Han F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vermeulen, Hendrik Frederik (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch historian of science and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952