An Argument for Ethnology as a Historical Science Concerning Ethnic Groups
An Argument for Ethnology as a Historical Science Concerning Ethnic Groups

Summary/Abstract: It is unnecessary to emphasize (everybody will agree) that ethnology is in a state of permanent crisis. The crisis is of such an extent that it calls into question the subject matter of ethnology, its approaches, methods, definitions and its very name. Relying on the old wisdom that the solution of a problem is partly in its history, I shall try to point to some moments in the development of ethnology which determined its history and eventually contributed to the above-mentioned crisis. This review will not, of course, solve the problems, but it may help to illuminate and thus better understand them.

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