New History of Anthropology
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New History of Anthropology

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New History of Anthropology

About this book

A New History of Anthropology collects original writings from pre-eminent scholars to create a sophisticated but accessible guide to the development of the field.

  • Re-examines the history of anthropology through the lens of the new globalized world
  • Provides a comprehensive history of the discipline, from its prehistory in the 'age of exploration' through to anthropology's current condition and its relationship with other disciplines
  • Places ideas and practices within the context of their time and place of origin
  • Looks at anthropology's role in colonization, early traditions in the field, and topical issues from various periods in the field's history, and examines its relationship to other disciplines

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Table of contents

  1. Illustrations
  2. Notes on Contributors
  3. Introduction Henrika Kuklick
  4. 1 Anthropology Before Anthropology Harry Liebersohn
  5. Part I Major Traditions
  6. 2 North American Traditions in Anthropology: The Historiographic Baseline Regna Darnell
  7. 3 The British Tradition 1 Henrika Kuklick
  8. 4 Traditions in the German Language H. Glenn Penny
  9. 5 The Metamorphosis of Ethnology in France, 1839–1930 Emmanuelle Sibeud
  10. Part II Early Obsessions
  11. 6 The Spiritual Dimension Ivan Strenski
  12. 7 The Empire in Empiricism: The Polemics of Color Barbara Saunders
  13. 8 Anthropology and the Classics Robert Ackerman
  14. Part III Neglected Pasts
  15. 9 Anthropology on the Periphery: The Early Schools of Nordic Anthropology Christer Lindberg
  16. 10 Colonial Commerce and Anthropological Knowledge: Dutch Ethnographic Museums in the European Context Donna C. Mehos
  17. 11 Political Fieldwork, Ethnographic Exile, and State Theory: Peasant Socialism and Anthropology in Late-Nineteenth-Century Russia Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
  18. 12 Using the Past to Serve the Peasant: Chinese Archaeology and the Making of a Historical Science Hilary A. Smith
  19. Part IV Biology
  20. 13 The Anthropology of Race Across the Darwinian Revolution Thomas F. Glick
  21. 14 Race Across the Physical–Cultural Divide in American Anthropology Jonathan Marks
  22. 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 1 Robert N. Proctor
  23. Part V New Directions and Perspectives
  24. 16 Women in the Field in the Twentieth Century: Revolution, Involution, Devolution? Lyn Schumaker
  25. 17 Visual Anthropology Anna Grimshaw
  26. 18 Anthropological Regionalism Rena Lederman
  27. 19 Applied Anthropology Merrill Singer
  28. Works Cited
  29. Index