New History of Anthropology

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Henrika Kuklick
John Wiley & Sons, Feb 9, 2009 - Social Science - 416 pages

A New History of Anthropology collects original writings from pre-eminent scholars to create a sophisticated but accessible guide to the development of the field.

  • Re-examines the history of anthropology through the lens of the new globalized world
  • Provides a comprehensive history of the discipline, from its prehistory in the 'age of exploration' through to anthropology’s current condition and its relationship with other disciplines
  • Places ideas and practices within the context of their time and place of origin
  • Looks at anthropology’s role in colonization, early traditions in the field, and topical issues from various periods in the field’s history, and examines its relationship to other disciplines
 

Contents

Introduction Henrika Kuklick
1
1 Anthropology Before Anthropology Harry Liebersohn
17
Part I Major Traditions
33
The Historiographic Baseline Regna Darnell
35
3 The British Tradition 1 Henrika Kuklick
52
4 Traditions in the German Language H Glenn Penny
79
5 The Metamorphosis of Ethnology in France 18391930 Emmanuelle Sibeud
96
Part II Early Obsessions
111
Peasant Socialism and Anthropology in LateNineteenthCentury Russia Nikolai SsorinChaikov
191
Chinese Archaeology and the Making of a Historical Science Hilary A Smith
207
Part IV Biology
223
13 The Anthropology of Race Across the Darwinian Revolution Thomas F Glick
225
14 Race Across the PhysicalCultural Divide in American Anthropology Jonathan Marks
242
How New Ideas of Race Brutality Molecular Drift and the Powers of Time Have Affected Conceptions of Human Origins 1 Robert N Proctor
259
Part V New Directions and Perspectives
275
Revolution Involution Devolution? Lyn Schumaker
277

6 The Spiritual Dimension Ivan Strenski
113
The Polemics of Color Barbara Saunders
128
8 Anthropology and the Classics Robert Ackerman
143
Part III Neglected Pasts
159
The Early Schools of Nordic Anthropology Christer Lindberg
161
Dutch Ethnographic Museums in the European Context Donna C Mehos
173
17 Visual Anthropology Anna Grimshaw
293
18 Anthropological Regionalism Rena Lederman
310
19 Applied Anthropology Merrill Singer
326
Works Cited
341
Index
381
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Henrika Kuklick is Professor in the Department of History & Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on the history of anthropology. She is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the History of Science Society, and has served on the editorial Boards of such journals as History of Anthropology; Histories of Anthropology; Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society; and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. She has also served as the editor for Knowledge and Society, and is currently the editor of the History of Anthropology Newsletter.

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