Corridor Talk to Culture History
Public Anthropology and Its Consequences
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780803269651
- Publish Date
- Nov 2015
- List Price
- $47.95
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Description
The Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and doing anthropology. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology are included.
This ninth volume of the series, Corridor Talk to Culture History showcases geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have presented their methods and theories to the public and in general to a variety of audiences. Contributors examine interpretive and methodological diversity within anthropological traditions often viewed from the standpoint of professional consensus, the ways anthropological relations cross disciplinary boundaries, and the contrast between academic authority and public culture, which is traced to the professionalization of anthropology and other social sciences in the nineteenth century. Essays showcase the research and personalities of Alexander Goldenweiser, Robert Lowie, Harlan I. Smith, Fustel de Coulanges, Edmund Leach, Carl Withers, and Margaret Mead, among others.
About the authors
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology Emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015). Darnell is the general editor of the multivolume series The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition and co-editor of the Critical Studies in History of Anthropology series.
Editorial Reviews
“This volume is part of an excellent series on the history of anthropology. There is no current series like it, and the editors are among the best scholars in this field.”—Paul Shankman, author of The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
“Well worth the reading. It is a valuable addition to the genre.”—Frank A. Salamone, author of Charlie Parker: The Trickster of Jazz
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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology
The History of Anthropology
A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America
Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History
Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14
The Social Life of Standards
Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement
Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories
Tracking Anthropological Engagements
Historicizing Theories, Identities, and Nations
Local Knowledge, Global Stage
The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1
Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism
Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders
Other titles by Frederic W. Gleach
Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History
Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14
Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories
Tracking Anthropological Engagements
Historicizing Theories, Identities, and Nations
Local Knowledge, Global Stage
Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders
Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association
Presidential Portraits