Delimiting Anthropology
Delimiting Anthropology makes available sixteen essays from the influential career of George W. Stocking, Jr., the worldas preeminent historian of anthropology. The essays are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stockingas own research over four decades. In his introductory comments he places each essay in the context of his entire body of work. The first quartet focuses on the work of Franz Boas and the emergence of qBoasian Culturalism.q In the second set of essays Stocking addresses the careers of three British qevolutionariesqaLord Kames; Sir E. B. Tylor; and Sir James G. Frazeratracking the development of cultural evolutionary thought from its origins in the Scottish Enlightenment through its early twentieth-century afterglow in Frazeras The Golden Bough. The third group of essays looks at institutions and national traditions, including British ethnography exemplified in the fieldwork manual Notes and Queries; the humanistic Parisian SociActAc daEthnographie; the early tension at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe between aspiring local amateur anthropologists and professionals from Eastern universities; and the history of ethnographic museums in the European tradition. In closing, Stocking offers reflections on major tendencies in anthropology from the eighteenth century to the present.The essays are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stockingas own research over four decades. In his introductory comments he places each essay in the context of his entire body of work.
| Title | : | Delimiting Anthropology |
| Author | : | George W. Stocking |
| Publisher | : | Univ of Wisconsin Press - 2001 |
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