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New History of Anthropology
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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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- 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, 1839â1930 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
- Part III Neglected Pasts
- 9 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 Peasant: Chinese Archaeology and the Making of a Historical Science Hilary A. Smith
- Part IV Biology
- 13 The Anthropology of Race Across the Darwinian Revolution Thomas F. Glick
- 14 Race Across the PhysicalâCultural Divide in American Anthropology Jonathan Marks
- 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
- Part V New Directions and Perspectives
- 16 Women in the Field in the Twentieth Century: Revolution, Involution, Devolution? Lyn Schumaker
- 17 Visual Anthropology Anna Grimshaw
- 18 Anthropological Regionalism Rena Lederman
- 19 Applied Anthropology Merrill Singer
- Works Cited
- Index