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Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology / Clifford Wilcox.
Penn Museum Library GN21.R43 W55 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilcox, Clifford, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958.
- Redfield, Robert.
- Anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Chicago school of sociology.
- History.
- Anthropology.
- United States.
- Anthropology--United States--History.
- Chicago school of sociology--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]
- Contents:
- 1. Robert Redfield and the Modernist Vision in American Social Science 11
- 2. A Science of Social Change: Constructing the Folk-Urban Continuum 41
- 3. A Broadening of Perspective: Beyond Anthropology as a Natural Science 77
- 4. From Folk Societies to Civilizations 109
- 5. Comparative Civilizations Studies: Explorations in Theory and Methodology 137
- 6. An Anthropological Approach to Civilizations 165
- Afterword: The Redfield Legacy 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739107283
- OCLC:
- 54446492
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