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Item Details
| Title:
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DELIMITING ANTHROPOLOGY
OCCASIONAL INQUIRIES AND REFLECTIONS |
| By: |
George W. Stocking |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£47.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299174506 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299174507 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2001 |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
This title contains 16 essays by George W. Stocking Jr. They are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking's own research over four decades. He focuses on "Boasian Culturalism", evolutionary thought, institutions and national traditions, and major tendencies in anthropology. |
| Synopsis: |
Delimiting Anthropology makes available sixteen essays from the influential career of George W. Stocking, Jr., the world's preeminent historian of anthropology. The essays are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking's own research over four decades. In his introductory comments he places each essay in the context of his entire body of work. The first quartet focuses on the work of Franz Boas and the emergence of "Boasian Culturalism." In the second set of essays Stocking addresses the careers of three British "evolutionaries"--Lord Kames; Sir E. B. Tylor; and Sir James G. Frazer--tracking the development of cultural evolutionary thought from its origins in the Scottish Enlightenment through its early twentieth-century afterglow in Frazer's The Golden Bough. The third group of essays looks at institutions and national traditions, including British ethnography exemplified in the fieldwork manual Notes and Queries; the humanistic Parisian Societe d'Ethnographie; the early tension at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe between aspiring local amateur anthropologists and professionals from Eastern universities; and the history of ethnographic museums in the European tradition. In closing, Stocking offers reflections on major tendencies in anthropology from the eighteenth century to the present. |
| Illustrations: |
13 b&w photographs, 3 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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