This is a valuable and important book, a timely addition to the growing field of literature in both anthropology and the history of ideas. It is also a reminder of the valuable heritage that some learned women and men have left for us, with important lessons that can serve us well in navigating through the complexities of contemporary debates. Aleksandar Bokovi, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (2023)
Ethnographers before Malinowski is a fundamental reference work in the history of anthropology. Hopefully, history will reserve a place for it alongside the other titans of our disciplines historiography Erik Petschelies, Anthropology Today (2022)
For its erudition, as much as for the issues it addresses and the finesse of its analyses, Ethnographers before Malinowski is a must-read for historians and anthropologists alike, for whom this imposing volume will have demonstrated the relevance of the ethnographic archive. Beatrice Di Brizio, European Journal of Social Sciences (2024)
This volume, its contributing authors, and the fieldworkers and ethnographies they restore constitute a creative, necessary resistance to iconoclastic, postcolonial assaults on anthropology. Highly recommended. Choice
Ethnographers before Malinowski provides a valuable contribution on the work of those ethnographers who formed the broader mosaic of the disciplinary evolution of professional anthropology. The contributors provide visibility to those pioneers who were discarded during the historiographical sifting of the Malinowskian Revolution. Ultimately, this volume provides the historical substance that can counter the disciplinary trend. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
This collection is an important event in the subfield of history of anthropology. Its editors, two well-known European scholars, have assembled an impressive collection of essays It should be in the library of every major university. Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
