| Description |
1 online resource (416 pages) |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Henrika Kuklick; 1 Anthropology Before Anthropology Harry Liebersohn; Part I Major Traditions; 2 North American Traditions in Anthropology: The Historiographic Baseline Regna Darnell; 3 The British Tradition 1 Henrika Kuklick; 4 Traditions in the German Language H. Glenn Penny; 5 The Metamorphosis of Ethnology in France, 1839-1930 Emmanuelle Sibeud; Part II Early Obsessions; 6 The Spiritual Dimension Ivan Strenski; 7 The Empire in Empiricism: The Polemics of Color Barbara Saunders; 8 Anthropology and the Classics Robert Ackerman |
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Part III Neglected Pasts9 Anthropology on the Periphery: The Early Schools of Nordic Anthropology Christer Lindberg; 10 Colonial Commerce and Anthropological Knowledge: Dutch Ethnographic Museums in the European Context Donna C. Mehos; 11 Political Fieldwork, Ethnographic Exile, and State Theory: Peasant Socialism and Anthropology in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov; 12 Using the Past to Serve the Peasa |
| Summary |
Situating ideas and practices within the context of their time and place of origin, this book begins with an examination of the prehistory of the field, during the "age of exploration." It then continues its evaluation by examining the various anthropological traditions present in the field's early work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- History
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Anthropology
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470766217 |
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0470766212 |
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1281068918 |
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9781281068910 |
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