Historicizing theories, identities, and nations

Historicizing theories, identities, and nations / edited by Regna Darnell, Frederic W. Gleach.

The Histories of Anthropology Annual 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 conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical,...

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Other Authors: Darnell, Regna (Editor), Gleach, Frederic W. (Frederic Wright), 1960- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:Histories of anthropology annual ; volume 11.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Philosophy > History.
Anthropology > Methodology > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropology > Methodology
Anthropology > Philosophy
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editors' Introduction; 1. Franz Boas as Theorist: A Mentalist Paradigm for the Study of Mind, Body, Environment, and Culture; 2. ""We Are Also One in Our Concept of Freedom"": The Dewey-Boas Correspondence and the Invention of Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism; 3. What Would Franz Boas Have Thought about 9/11?; 4. Boas and the Young Intellectuals: Exploring the American Context of Anthropology and Modern Life; 5. Ruth Benedict: Synergy, Maslow, and Hitler; 6. Continuity and Dislocations: A.I. Hallowell's Physical Anthropology.
  • 7. An Epistemological Shift in the History of Anthropology: The Linguistic Turn8. Westermarck and the Diverse Roots of Relativism; 9. Heritage Gatherers: Peasant-Mania Ethnography and Pre-World War I National Awakeners of Ukraine; 10. Adopting Western Methods to Understand One's Own Culture: Social and Cultural Studies by Vietnamese Scholars of the French Colonial Era; 11. Life in Hanoi in the State Subsidy Period: Questions Raised in Social Criticism and Social Reminiscences; 12. Between Ethnos and Nation: Genealogies of Dân Tộc in Vietnamese Contexts

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