%0 Journal Article %T Viajar ¨¦ preciso: Theodor Koch-Gr¨¹nberg e a V£¿lkerkunde alem£¿ do s¨¦culo XIX %A Frank %A Erwin H. %J Revista de Antropologia %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0034-77012005000200005 %X taking the ethnography of theodor koch-gr¨¹nberg as ideal realization of the scientific project of v£¿lkerkunde (german anthropology), ever since its invention by waitz and, principally adolf bastian, up to its self-elimination in the "third reich", we analyze initially the roots of this project in german philosophy since herder, up to the neo-kantian rupture between the natural and the social (or cultural) sciences, in midst 19th century. after that, we try to show that, as a program for ethnography, the epistemic presuppositions of v£¿lkerkunde were, ever since its beginnings, condemned to fail, - even considering the heroic trails of koch-gr¨¹nberg. %K history of anthropology %K v£¿lkerkunde %K theodor koch-gr¨¹nberg %K ethnography. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-77012005000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en