Delimiting anthropology : occasional essays and reflections / George W. Stocking, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stocking, George W., Jr. (George Ward), 1928-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--History.

Ethnology.

History.

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2001]

Contents:

I. Boasian Culturalism 1

1. The Turn-of-the-Century Concept of Race 3

2. The Basic Assumptions of Boasian Anthropology 24

3. Polarity and Plurality: Franz Boas as a Psychological Anthropologist 49

4. Franz Boas and the History of Humanistic Anthropology 63

II. British Evolutionaries 77

5. Scotland as the Model of Mankind: Lord Kames's Philosophical View of Civilization 78

6. Edward Burnett Tylor and the Mission of Primitive Man 103

7. Animism in Theory and Practice: E. B. Tylor's Unpublished "Notes On 'Spiritualism'" 116

8. Outcast from the Islands: Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Modern Anthropology 147

III. Institutions in National Traditions 163

9. Reading the Palimpsest of Inquiry: Notes and Queries and the History of British Social Anthropology 164

10. What's in a Name? (II): The Societe d'Ethnographie and the Historiography of "Anthropology" in France 207

11. The Santa Fe Style in American Anthropology: Regional Interest, Academic Initiative, and Philanthropic Policy in the First Two Decades of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Inc. 218

12. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture 244

IV. Mesocosmic Reflections 261

13. Rousseau Redux, Or Historical Reflections on the Ambivalence of Anthropology to the Idea of Progress 263

14. The Shaping of National Anthropologies: A View from the Center 281

15. Delimiting Anthropology: Historical Reflections on the Boundaries of a Boundless Discipline 303

16. Books Unwritten, Turning Points Unmarked: Notes for an Anti-History of Anthropology 330.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-381) and index.

ISBN:

0299174506

OCLC:

46683936