Bøger i Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology serien
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- Bog
- 353,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 923,95 kr.
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551,95 kr. Illuminates the career of Theodore E. White and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. R. Lee Lyman works to fill gaps in the historical record and revisits some of White's analytical innovations from a modern perspective.
- Bog
- 551,95 kr.
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- The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America
324,95 - 505,95 kr. - Bog
- 324,95 kr.
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- Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
601,95 kr. The anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Declared Defective exposes the pseudoscientific zealotry and fear mongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America.
- Bog
- 601,95 kr.
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518,95 kr. Chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). Essays explore the early history and notable contributions of the museum's directors and curators, including a tour de force chapter that interweaves the history of research at the museum with the intriguing story of the peopling of the Americas.
- Bog
- 518,95 kr.
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- Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology
609,95 kr. Charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950).
- Bog
- 609,95 kr.
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- The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa
809,95 kr. Examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African-born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the anthropology of anticolonialism and conflict theory in southern Africa, and one of the most prolific structuralist and Marxist anthropologists of his generation.
- Bog
- 809,95 kr.
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- Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945
690,95 kr. Explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture and politics.
- Bog
- 690,95 kr.
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- The Emergence of the Anthropologist
318,95 kr. Rosemary Levy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Bog
- 318,95 kr.
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- The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment
447,95 - 779,95 kr. "An extensive study of the emergence of ethnology and ethnography, and how theories in Europe and Russia during the eighteenth century experienced a paradigm shift with the work of Franz Boas starting in 1886"--
- Bog
- 447,95 kr.
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- A History of Anthropology and Sexuality
370,95 kr. Traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century onwards, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. This title argues that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex.
- Bog
- 370,95 kr.
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- The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict
830,95 kr. Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.
- Bog
- 830,95 kr.
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- Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945
408,95 kr. National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.
- Bog
- 408,95 kr.
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- A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America
373,95 - 1.060,95 kr. - Bog
- 373,95 kr.
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- Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind
413,95 - 598,95 kr. Examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in the Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Hoffman's Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar America.
- Bog
- 413,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 413,95 kr.
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322,95 - 1.060,95 kr. - Bog
- 322,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 458,95 kr.
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- Action Anthropology Reconsidered
798,95 kr. Illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Drawing on interviews and archival records, this work tells the story from the viewpoint of the Meskwaki themselves. It also assesses the impact of Action Anthropology on the Meskwaki settlement.
- Bog
- 798,95 kr.
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- American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945
736,95 kr. Focuses on the dialogue between the American anthropological tradition and Korea, from Korea's first treaty with the United States to the end of World War II, with the goal of rereading anthropology's history and theoretical development through its Pacific frontier.
- Bog
- 736,95 kr.
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418,95 kr. Offers an intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821-88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. During his career, Squier consistently articulated the need for a more holistic and integrated approach to the study of humankind.
- Bog
- 418,95 kr.
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- Anthropological Inquiry and Education
418,95 kr. 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. This work aims to add a fresh dimension to the history and development of anthropology in the United States.
- Bog
- 418,95 kr.
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- The Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
459,95 kr. In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. This title argues that the nineteenth-century explorers shared the attributes that characterize the discipline of anthropology in any age.
- Bog
- 459,95 kr.
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- The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
339,95 - 578,95 kr. As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. This title shows how anthropology showcased itself "to show each half of the world how the other half lives".
- Bog
- 339,95 kr.
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- Gender, Shamanism, Race
948,95 kr. This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka (1884–1921) is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka, together with Bronis¿aw Malinowski, studied anthropology in London and later at Oxford, then she headed the Yenisei Expedition to Siberia (1914–15) and was the first female lecturer of anthropology at Oxford. She was an engaged feminist and an expert on political issues in Northern Asia and Eastern Europe. But this remarkable woman’s career was cut short by suicide. Like many women anthropologists of the time, Czaplicka journeyed through various academic institutions, and her legacy has been dispersed and her field materials lost.
- Bog
- 948,95 kr.
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- Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology
315,95 kr. Placing White's life and work in historic context, this book documents the sociopolitical influences that affected his career, including many aspects of White's life that are largely unknown, such as the reasons he became antagonistic toward Boasian anthropology.
- Bog
- 315,95 kr.
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- A Life in Anthropology
319,95 kr. A biography that reconsiders Landes' life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict.
- Bog
- 319,95 kr.
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- Sport, Race, and American Imperialism
572,95 kr. An interdisciplinary collection of essays that assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World's Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant.
- Bog
- 572,95 kr.
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319,95 kr. Drawing on his private papers and published works, this biography recognizes Herskovits' contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars.
- Bog
- 319,95 kr.