American anthropology and company : historical explorations / Stephen O. Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Stephen O.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--United States--History.

Anthropology.

Anthropological linguistics--United States--History.

Anthropological linguistics.

Sociology--United States--History.

Sociology.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 370 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

Contents:

Part 1 Anthropology and Some of Its Companions

Introduction: Before the Boasians 3

1 Historical Inferences from Ethnohistorical Data: Boasian Views 15

2 The Manufacture of Linguistic Structure 22

3 Margaret Mead and the Professional Unpopularity of Popularizers 31

4 American Anthropologists Discover Peasants 52

5 The Non-eclipse of Americanist Anthropology during the 1930s and 1940s 88

6 The Pre-Freudian Georges Devereux, the Post-Freudian Alfred Kroeber, and Mohave Sexuality 102

7 University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology during the 1950s 114

8 American Anthropologists Looking through Taiwan to See "Traditional" China, 1950-1990, with Keelung Hong 122

Part 2 Sociology's Increasingly Uneasy Relations with Anthropology

Introduction 157

9 W. I. Thomas, Behaviorist Ethnologist 161

10 The Postmaturity of Sociolinguistics: Edward Sapir and Personality Studies in the Chicago Department of Sociology 172

11 The Reception of Anthropological Work in American Sociology, 1921-1951 194

12 The Rights of Research Assistants and the Rhetoric of Political Suppression: Morton Grodzins and the University of California Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study 211

13 Resistance to Sociology at Berkeley 246

14 Does Editing Core Anthropology and Sociology Journals Increase Citations to the Editor? 264.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-360) and index.

ISBN:

9780803243958

0803243952

OCLC:

815824867