List of historical ethnographic questionnaires

This list of historical ethnographic questionnaires contains ethnographic questionnaire ( English ethnographic questionnaire , French questionnaire ethnographiques ) with ready-made questions on field research in ethnology (ethnology) and anthropology (human studies). Such questionnaires were particularly widespread during the colonial era .

Many colonial institutions or related organizations have developed and published their own questionnaires. Some had multiple editions or editions, for example the sixth edition of the Notes and Queries of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London appeared in 1951, the first edition was entitled Notes and queries on anthropology: for the use of travelers and residents in uncivilized lands (" Anthropology Notes and Questions: For the Use of Travelers and Residents in Uncivilized Areas ”) and was published in 1874 by the Royal College of Surgeons of England . The following overview tries to capture some important of these “questionnaires”. It is sorted by language.

Overview

English

• A. Galloway Keller : Queries in ethnography. New York, London, Bombay, 1903. Digitized
• Notes and Queries on Anthropology. Revised and rewritten by a Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute . Sixth Edition. London ( Routledge & Kegan Paul ), 1951 ( Review ) 2nd A. 1892 Digitized (6th A., 1951) ...
• John Wesley Powell . Questionnaire.
• Jefferson's questionnaire during the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804 (see Albert Gallatin : Synopsis of the Indians within the United States east of the Rocky Montains and the British and Russian possessions in North America .)
• James George Frazer (1895) Anthropological Questions. In: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. XXIV, London.

French

• George Foucart , Jamʻīyah al-Jughrāfīyah al-Misṛīyah: Questionnaire préliminaire d'ethnologie africaine. Cairo , Impr. De l ' Institut français d'archéologie orientale , 1919. / Introductory questions on African ethnology
• Henri Labouret : Plan de monographie régionale (Paris: Larose, 1933) / Outre-Mer, Paris, 1er trim. 1932, pp. 52-89.
• Marcel Mauss : Fragment d'un plan de sociologie descriptive. Annales de sociologie , Paris, series A, fasc. 1, pp. 1-56.
• Marcel Mauss: Manuel d'ethnographie (1926) [1] (reissued 1947) [2] , German translation under the title "Handbuch der Ethnographie (2013)" [3]
• Questionnaire de l ' École française d'Extrême-Orient . Composé par Marcel Mauss et expliqué par le Colonel Bonifacy .
• Charles Hercules Read : Questionnaire ethnographique pour le Congo. British Museum . London, 1904.
• Questionnaire de sociologie et d'ethnographie (Publication de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris ). 1883 (2 ° éd., 1889).
• Louis Marin : Questionnaire d'Ethnographie. Paris 1925 ( Review ) by Henri-A. Junod
• Questionnaire éthnographique et sociologique. Budget Indépendant du Congo . Bruxelles: Hayez, 1898
• Questionnaire ethnographique relatif au Congo Belge avec quelques indications bibliographiques. Royaume de Belgique, Min. Des Colonies . Bruxelles, 1940
• Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro : Instructions sommaires pour les collecteurs d'objets ethnographiques . Paris, Musée d'ethnographie (Museum national d'histoire naturelle) et Mission scientifique Dakar-Djibouti, 1931
• Institut international des langues et des civilizations africaines ; H. Labouret: Recommandations pour l'étude de la famille et des chefferies. Paris: Sonzé, [sd]

Russian

• Ethnographic questionnaire of the Ethnographic Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society , created after 1845, Nikolai Nadeschdin (russ.)
• Viacheslav Nikolaevich Tenishev : Program of Ethnographic Information about the Peasants of Central Russia (russ.)
• Dos yidishe etnografishe program (Jewish Ethnographic Program), S. An-ski (Yiddish) (Der mentsh: Dos yidishe etnografishe program, ed. LI Shternberg (Petrograd, 1914))

German

• Friedrich S. Krauss : Ethnographic questionnaire. Anthropological Society in Vienna 1884
• Felix von Luschan : Instruction for ethnographic observations and collections in German East Africa ; compiled on behalf of the management of the Königl. Museum of Ethnology in Berlin. Berlin: ES Mittler, 1896
• Heinrich Seidel: Instructions for ethnographic observations and collections in Togo. In: Messages from explorers and scholars from the German protected areas, 10 (1897): 1-25.
• Felix von Luschan : Instructions for ethnographic observations and collections in Africa and Oceania. Berlin, Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin , 1899 (3rd A. 1904)
• Steinmetz, SR : Ethnographic collection of questions to research the social life of peoples outside the modern European-American culture. Published by the International Association for Comparative Law and Economics in Berlin and designed by Dr. SR Steinmetz. Edited and expanded by R. Thurnwald . Berlin: R. v. Decker 1906.
• Africa, ethnographic questionnaire of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology , Hamburg 1910.

See also

• ethnography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Digitalisat (6. A.) - At the beginning of the book, three committees are named in a list of committees that were involved in the creation: the General Committee ( British Association for the Advancement of Science , Section H), the Sub-Committee on Sociology (British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section H) and the Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute for the Publication of Notes and Queries on Anthropology (Sixth Edition). Members of the various committees were HJ Fleure , WE Le Gros Clarke , EE Evans-Pritchard , D. Forde , JH Hutton , AR Radcliffe-Brown , R. Firth , M. Fortes , John L. Myres and, last but not least, Brenda Z. Seligman (1883-1965), the wife of Charles Gabriel Seligman , who died in 1940 , who also wrote the foreword.
2. ↑ digitized version
3. ↑ John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology .
4. ↑ International Encyclopedia of Linguistics : AAVE - Esperanto, Volume 1. 2003, p. 96 ( partial online view )
5. ^ Henri Labouret (1878-1959) - Obituary by Hubert Deschamps
6. ↑ Auguste Bonifacy (1856-1931) , obituary by L. Finot
7. ↑ cf. Review by MM ( Marcel Mauss ) in Année sociologique
8. ^ Nathaniel Deutsch, p. 63.
9. ^ Nathaniel Deutsch, p. 63.
10. ^ An-ski Ethnographic Expedition and Museum - yivoencyclopedia.org
11. ↑ cf. Review in Année sociologique

literature

• Marcel Mauss : Manuel d'ethnographie . 1967. Payot & Rivages Editions. Online at gaogoa.free.fr
  • (Engl.) The Manual of Ethnography . Translated by NJ Allen. Berghan Books 2009 ( partial online view )
• Jean Copans: Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie: Domaines et approches (sociologie) . 2010 ( partial online view )
• Nathaniel Deutsch: The Jewish Dark Continent. Life and Death in the Russian Pale Settlement . 2011 ( partial online view )
• Regina Sarreiter: I think half of your museum has been stolen . In: A. Hoffmann, B. Lange, R. Sarreiter (eds.): What We See. Images, voices, noise. On the criticism of anthropometric collecting . Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2012, pp. 42-58. ( Partial online view )
• Emmanuel Soutrenon: The “Ethnographic Questionnaire”: Reflections on Field Practice . In: "Genèses" 2005/3 (No 60), p. 121 ff. ( Abstract )
• Silvia Collini and Antonella Vannoni: Les instructions scientifiques pour les voyageurs (XVIIe-XIXe siècle) . L'Harmattan, Paris et al. a. 2005