The Enigma of Max Gluckman

Robert J Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth centur... Lees meer

Looking Through Taiwan

Keelung Hong, Stephen O Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate--and often oppress--their native subjects... Lees meer

The Meskwaki and Anthropologists

Judith M Daubenmier

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected... Lees meer

The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, which included the third modern Oly... Lees meer

Rolling in Ditches with Shamans

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime ... Lees meer

Ruth Benedict

Virginia Heyer Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie ... Lees meer

Anthropology Goes to the Fair

Nancy J Parezo, Don D Fowler

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Lees meer

The Shaping of American Ethnography

Barry Alan Joyce

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including... Lees meer

A Maverick Boasian

Sergei A Kan

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• A Maverick Boasian explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880-1940), a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz... Lees meer

Visionary Observers

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthrop... Lees meer

Cora Du Bois

Susan C Seymour

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a rem... Lees meer

Anthropology Goes to the Fair

Nancy J Parezo, Don D Fowler

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Lees meer

National Races

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced ... Lees meer

Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• In Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945 , international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and soci... Lees meer

Declared Defective

Robert Jarvenpa

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family , written in 1912 by Arthur E... Lees meer

Irregular Connections

Andrew P Lyons, Harriet D Lyons

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural an... Lees meer

Before Boas

Han F Vermeulen

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boa... Lees meer

History of Theory and Method in Anthropology

Regna Darnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and the... Lees meer

Franz Boas

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist an... Lees meer

Excavating Nauvoo

Benjamin C Pykles

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the 1960s, the ... Lees meer

American Antiquities

Terry A Barnhart

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as i... Lees meer

History of Theory and Method in Anthropology

Regna Darnell

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and the... Lees meer

Looking Through Taiwan

Keelung Hong, Stephen O Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate--and often oppress--their native subjects... Lees meer

Invisible Genealogies

Regna Darnell

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Invisible Genealogies is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many ... Lees meer