Functionalism historicized : essays on British social anthropology / editor, George W. Stocking, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Series:

History of anthropology ; 2.

History of anthropology ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Social sciences)--History.

Functionalism (Social sciences).

Ethnology--Great Britain--History.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) : portraits.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

" This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. There are a wide range of historical skills on display, from traditional textual analysis to historical sociology of the most sophisticated sort, and there is a more or less thorough chronological coverage from the era of classical evolutionism virtually up to the present. One can only hope that historicizing anthropologists will sample some of these wares."- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Functionalism Historicized

2. The Functional Reduction of Kinship in the Social Thought of John Locke / Thomas de Zengotita

3. Robertson Smith and James Frazer on Religion: Two Traditions in Birtish Social Anthropology / Robert Alun Jones

4. Tribal Exemplars: Images of Political Authority in British Anthropology, 1885-1945 / Henrika Kuklick

5. Englishmen, Celts, and Iberians: The Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom, 1892-1899 / James Urry

6. Dr. Durkheim and Mr. Brown: Comparative Sociology at Cambridge in 1910 / George W. Stocking, Jr. (Editor)

7. Radcliffe-Brown and British Social Anthropology / George Stocking, Jr.

8. Function, History, Biography: Reflections on Fifty Years in the British Anthropological Tradition / Hilda Kuper

9. Miscellaneous Studies: From Philology to Anthropology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany / James Whitman

Information for Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

9786612697449

9781282697447

1282697447

9780299099039

0299099032

OCLC:

659579781