An Inquiry Into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia
Author: Margaret Mead
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 100
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Author: Margaret Mead
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Mead
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 89
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: MARGARET MEAD
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 96
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Published: 1928
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George W. Stocking
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780299134143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Stocking has been widely recognized as the premier historian of anthropology ever since the publication of his first volume of essays, Race, Culture, and Evolution, in 1968. As editor of several publications, including the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series, he has led the movement to establish the history of anthropology as a recognized research specialization. In addition to the study Victorian Anthropology, his work includes numerous essays covering a wide range of anthropological topics. The eight essays collected in The Ethnographer's Magic consider the emergence of anthropology since the late nineteenth century as an academic discipline grounded in systematic fieldwork. Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript materials, the essays focus primarily on Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski, the leading figures in the American and the British academic fieldwork traditions. According to George Marcus of Rice University, the essays "represent the most informative and insightful writings on Malinowski and Boas and their legacies that are yet available." Beyond their biographical material, the essays here touch upon major themes in the history of anthropology: its powerfully mythic aspect and persistent strain of romantic primitivism; the contradictions of its relationship to the larger sociopolitical sphere; its problematic integration of a variety of natural scientific and humanistic inquiries; and the tension between its scientific aspirations and its subjectively acquired data. To provide an overview against which to read the other essays, Stocking has also included a sketch of the history of anthropology from the ancient Greeks to the present. For this collection, Stocking has written prefatory commentaries for each of the essays, as well as two more extended contextualizing pieces. An introductory essay ("Retrospective Prescriptive Reflections") places the volume in autobiographical and historiographical context; the Afterword ("Postscriptive Prospective Reflections") reconsiders major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology.
Author: Margaret Mead
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780231134910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead presents the anthropologist's work in the context of her life and times. Mead also defends Benedict's humanistic approach to anthropology as she considers considers her most important works. In addition to a selection of Benedict's anthropological writings, this edition includes new forewords by two leading Benedict scholars.
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 948
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert W. Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1107600731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1939 text examines whether the formation of a cohesive ethnology of Polynesia could be possible.
Author: Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-12
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 1496216911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, and social science, the visual and performing arts, and America's public sphere during a period of global upheaval and social struggle.