Sir James George Frazer's comparative study of anthropology, folklore, and myth has been an influential work for writers and a standard text for scholars since its original publication, in several volumes, in the early part of the 20th century. Frazer was a professor of social anthropology and a classicist.
"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual ...
From the 1920s through the end of World War II, American anthropology grew in complexity while its scope became increasingly global and contemporary. Much insightful and innovative work continued to be produced by scholars working with Native American and First Nation communities, but the significant contributions of those conducting research ...
Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.
History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats a theme of major importance in both the history and current practice of anthropological inquiry. Drawing its title from a poem of W. H. Auden's, the present volume, "Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and Others" (the fourth in the series) focuses on the ...
In "Romantic Motives", George Stocking and his colleagues call attention to romanticism. This tradition has influenced the development of anthropology, although the role played by the romantic sensibility has been undervalued. The essays gathered here deal with a variety of topics, but all seek to identify and explore a romantic motif in ...
History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. "Objects and Others," the third volume, focuses on a number of questions relating to the history of museums and material culture studies: the interaction of museum arrangement and ...
"The Ethnographer's Magic" may be read at several levels by practitioners from several disciplines: intellectual history, history of science, anthropology, even comparative literature, new cultural history, and literary criticism. Original in its design, it presents the historiographer as composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to ...
'This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. A wide range of historical skills are on display, from traditional textual analysis to historical sociology of the most sophisticated sort, and the more or less through chronological coverage extends from the era of ...
Explores issues relating to the history of physical or biological anthropology - the application of the concept of "race" to humankind, the comparison of animal minds to those of humans, the evolution of humans from primate forms, and the relationship between science and racial ideology.
This title contains 16 essays by George W. Stocking Jr. They are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking's own research over four decades. He focuses on "Boasian Culturalism", evolutionary thought, institutions and national traditions, and major tendencies in anthropology.
In addition to his recent study "Victorian Anthropology", George Stocking's work includes numerous essays covering a wide range of anthropological topics. The eight essays collected here focus on the emergence of anthropology, since the late 19th century, as an academic discipline grounded in systematic fieldwork. Drawing extensively on ...
Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first to explore fully the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology. Boas' ...
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