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Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Anthropological traditions: The participants observed
- PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
- 1. Anthropological traditions: Their relationship as a dialectic
- 2. Anthropological traditions: Their uses and misuses
- 3. Anthropological traditions: Their definition
- 4. Anthropological traditions: Comparative aspects
- PART II: NATIONAL TRADITIONS
- 5. The United States: Racism and progress in the nineteenth century
- 6. Franz Boas: The academic response
- 7. Germany: Interpreting culture traits
- 8. The Soviet Union: The continuity of the great Russian tradition
- 9. Italy: Cultural anthropology reconsidered
- 10. The Netherlands: Structuralism before Lvi-Strauss
- 11. Denmark: All approaches are fruitful
- 12. India: A Western apprentice
- 13. Japan: An Asian reflex
- 14. Great Britain: Functionalism at home. A question of theory
- 15. Great Britain: Functionalism abroad. A theory in question
- PART III: TOWARDS A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- 16. The Manchester School in Africa and Israel: A critique
- 17. Latin America: The anthropology of conquest
- 18. Germany: The search for a new ancestor
- 19. Yugoslavia: The practical critique of ideological Marxism
- 20. The United States: The cultural predicament of the anthropologist
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