Visionary Observers Anthropological Inquiry and Education / edited by Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald ; preface by Sydel Silverman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hochwald, Eve.

Cherneff, Jill B. R.

Series:

Critical Studies in the Hist. of Anthro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropologists--United States.

Anthropologists.

Educational anthropology--United States.

Educational anthropology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. The topics they addressed illustrate how the lens of American anthropology has long been focused on domestic issues.

Contents:

Foreword / Sydel Silverman

Introduction / Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald

Franz Boas: scientist and public intellectual / Regna Darnell

Ruth Benedict: relativist and universalist / Virginia Heyer Young

A century of Margaret Mead / Ray McDermott

Education and democracy in the anthropology of Gene Weltfish / Juliet Niehaus

The social anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker / Jill B.R. Cherneff

Culture and race in the classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American education / Richard Handler

Human activity and a theory of schooling: an assessment of Solon Kimball's anthropology of education / Alexander Moore

They are all our children: Eleanor Leacock and the anthropology of education / Eve Hochwald.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-248) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610735198

9781280735196

1280735198

9780803257047

080325704X

OCLC:

476151872