Han F. Vermeulen and Arthuro Alverez Roldan, both Centre of Non-Western Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Social Anthropology at the University of Granada, Spain

• Introduction, Han F. Vermeulen, Arturo Alvarez Roldán; Part 1 The origins of anthropology in Europe; Chapter 1 Towards a prehistory of ethnography, Michael Harbsmeier; Chapter 2 Origins and institutionalization of ethnography and ethnology in Europe and the USA, 1771–1845, Han F. Vermeulen; Chapter 3 Discovering the whole of humankind, Gheorghita Geana; Chapter 4 Enlightenment and Romanticism in the work of Adolf Bastian, Klaus-Peter Koepping; Part 2 Contributions to European anthropology; Chapter 5 Orang Outang and the definition of Man, Alan Barnard; Chapter 6 Beyond evolutionism, Jan J. de Wolf; Chapter 7 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Peter Skalník; Chapter 8 Malinowski and the origins of the ethnographic method, Arturo Alvarez Roldán; Part 3 Anthropological traditions in Europe; Chapter 9 Sweden, Tomas Gerholm; Chapter 10 The anthropological tradition in Slovenia, Zmago Šmitek, Božidar Jezernik; Chapter 11 Ethnography and anthropology, Zbigniew Jasiewicz, David Slattery; Chapter 12 Historical anthropology and the history of anthropology in Germany, Nikola Susanne Bock; Chapter 13 Spanish social anthropologists in Mexico, Enrique Hugo, García Valencia; Chapter 14 A history of paradoxes, Thomas K. Schippers;