American anthropology & company [electronic resource] : historical explorations / Stephen O. Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Stephen O.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Other Title:

American anthropology and company : historical explorations

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In American Anthropology and Company, linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murray explores the connections between anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and history, in broad-ranging essays on the history of anthropology and allied disciplines. On subjects ranging from Native American linguistics to the pitfalls of American, Latin American, and East Asian fieldwork, among other topics, American Anthropology and Company presents the views of a historian of anthropology interested in the theoretical and institutional connections between disciplines that have always be

Contents:

pt. 1. Anthropology and some of its companions

pt. 2. Sociology's increasingly uneasy relations with anthropology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8032-4639-0

OCLC:

843201039