1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author :
Release : 1983
Genre : Anthropology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History of Anthropology by :
Download or read book History of Anthropology written by . This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Regna Darnell
Release : 2021-10
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 731/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The History of Anthropology by : Regna Darnell
Download or read book The History of Anthropology written by Regna Darnell. This book was released on 2021-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell's fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology's four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropology, the development of American folklore scholarship, theories of Indigenous languages, Southwest ethnographic research, Indigenous ceremonialism, text traditions, and anthropology's forays into contemporary public intellectual debates. The History of Anthropology is the essential volume for scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students to enter into the history of the Americanist tradition and its legacies, alternating historicism and presentism to contextualize anthropology's historical and contemporary relevance and legacies.
Author : Alan Barnard
Release : 2000-06-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History and Theory in Anthropology by : Alan Barnard
Download or read book History and Theory in Anthropology written by Alan Barnard. This book was released on 2000-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.
Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Release : 2004
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What Is Anthropology? by : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Download or read book What Is Anthropology? written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world
Author : George W. Stocking
Release : 1982-04-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 945/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Race, Culture, and Evolution by : George W. Stocking
Download or read book Race, Culture, and Evolution written by George W. Stocking. This book was released on 1982-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
