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New History of Anthropology

Henrika Kuklick (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-22599-7
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420 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania).

1. Anthropology before Anthropology: Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

Major Traditions.

2. North American Traditions in Anthropology: The Historiographic Baseline: Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario).

3. The British Tradition: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania).

4. Traditions in the German Language: H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa).

5. The Metamorphosis of Ethnology in France, 1839–1930: Emmanuelle Sibeud (University of Paris VIII).

Early Obsessions.

6. The Spiritual Dimension: Ivan Strenski (University of California, Riverside).

7. The Empire in Empiricism: The Polemics of Color: Barbara Saunders (University of Leuven).

8. Anthropology and the Classics: Robert Ackerman (Clare Hall, University of Cambridge).

Neglected Pasts.

9. Anthropology on the Periphery: The Early Schools of Nordic Anthropology: Christer Lindberg (Lund University and Turku University).

10. Colonial Commerce and Anthropological Knowledge: Dutch Ethnographic Museums in the European Context: Donna C. Mehos (Eindhoven Technical University).

11. Political Fieldwork, Ethnographic Exile, and State Theory: Peasant Socialism and Anthropology in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge).

12. Using the Past to Serve the Peasant: Chinese Archaeology and the Making of a Historical Science: Hilary A. Smith (University of Pennsylvania).

Biology.

13. The Anthropology of Race Across the Darwinian Revolution: Thomas F. Glick (Boston University).

14. Race across the Physical-Cultural Divide in American Anthropology: Jonathan Marks (University of North Carolina, Charlotte).

15. Temporality as Artifact in Paleoanthropology: How New Ideas of Race, Brutality, Molecular Drift, and the Powers of Time Have Affected Conceptions of Human Origins: Robert N. Proctor (Stanford University).

New Directions and Perspectives.

16. Women in the Field in the Twentieth Century: Revolution, Involution, Devolution?: Lyn Schumaker (University of Manchester).

17. Visual Anthropology: Anna Grimshaw (Emory University).

18. Anthropological Regionalism: Rena Lederman (Princeton University).

19. Applied Anthropology: Merrill Singer (Yale University).

Works Cited.

Index

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