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

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

Homo Imperii

Marina Mogilner

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• It is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune t... 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

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

Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge

Jerry Gershenhorn

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and Africa... Lees meer

Ruth Landes

Sally Cole

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Ruth Landes (1908-91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with... 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

Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent re... Lees meer

Race Experts

Linda Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race Experts Linda Kim examines th... 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

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

Lev Shternberg

Sergei Kan

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet R... Lees meer

Leslie A. White

William J Peace

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A. White (1900-1975). Between the early 1940s and ... Lees meer

An Asian Frontier

Robert Oppenheim

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists wou... Lees meer

Franz Boas

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early ... 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

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives

A Elisabeth Reichel

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives re-examines the poetry and scholarship of three of the foremost figures in the twentieth-century history ... Lees meer

The History of Anthropology

Regna Darnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and... Lees meer

Cultural Negotiations

David L Browman

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• This meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 194... Lees meer

Hoarding New Guinea

Rainer F Buschmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
• Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as wit... 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

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

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