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Explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the US, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, including luminaries such as Franz Boas and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and lesser-known but important anthropological work by Berthold Laufer and Robin Ridington, among others.

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Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, including the work of luminaries such as Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisaw Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, and Marshall Sahlins, as well as lesser-known but important anthropological work by Berthold Laufer, A. M. Hocart, Kenelm O. L. Burridge, and Robin Ridington, among others.These essays examine myriad themes such as the pedagogical context of the anthropologist as a teller of stories about indigenous storytellers; the colonial context of British anthropological theory and its projects outside the nation-state; the legacies of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism regarding culture- specific patterns; cognitive universals reflected in empirical examples of kinship, myth, language, classificatory systems, and supposed universal mental structures; and the career of Marshall Sahlins and his trajectory from neo-evolutionism and structuralism toward an epistemological skepticism of cross- cultural miscommunication.

Author Biography

Regna Darnell is the Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001) and Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist (Nebraska, 2010). Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the Curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997).

Table of Contents

ContentsList of IllustrationsEditors' Introduction1. "China to the Anthropologist": Franz Boas, Berthold Laufer, and a Road Not Taken in Early American AnthropologyLaurel Kendall2. A. M. Hocart: Reflections on a Master Ethnologist and His WorkCharles D. Laughlin3. Malinowski and the "Native Question"Mark Lamont4. Radcliffe-Brown and "Applied Anthropology" at Cape Town and SydneyIan Campbell5. "The Department Was in Some Disarray": The Politics of Choosing a Successor to S. F. Nadel, 1957Geoffrey Gray and Doug Munro6. An Elegy for a Structuralist Legacy: Lévi-Strauss, Cultural Relativism, and the Universal Capacities of the Human MindRegna Darnell7. Lévi-Strauss's Approach to Systems of Classification: Categories in Northwest Coast CulturesAbraham Rosman and Paula Rubel8. Lévi-Strauss on Theoretical Thought and Universal HistoryMichael Asch9. Historical Massacres and Mythical Totalities: Reading Marshall Sahlins on Two American FrontiersLars Rodseth10. Anthropologists as Perpetrators and Perpetuators of Oral Tradition: The Lectures of Kenelm O. L. Burridge and Robin Ridington, StorytellersLindy-Lou FlynnBook ReviewsContributors

Review

"Another fine contribution to the diverse histories of our field. Like all volumes in the series, Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders challenges us to think beyond standard renditions of an anthropology that presumably 'stays put' in space and time. Exploring the work of both well-known and largely forgotten anthropologists, this volume compels us to travel into theoretical and methodological borderlands where traditions like functionalism, structuralism, and applied anthropology may not be exactly what they seem." - Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography

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"Another fine contribution to the diverse histories of our field. Like all volumes in the series, Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders challenges us to think beyond standard renditions of an anthropology that presumably 'stays put' in space and time. Exploring the work of both well-known and largely forgotten anthropologists, this volume compels us to travel into theoretical and methodological borderlands where traditions like functionalism, structuralism, and applied anthropology may not be exactly what they seem."-Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography

Details ISBN0803253362 Author Frederic W. Gleach Year 2014 ISBN-10 0803253362 ISBN-13 9780803253360 Media Book Publication Date 2014-11-01 Pages 296 Publisher University of Nebraska Press Short Title ANTHROPOLOGISTS & THEIR TRADIT Language English Format Paperback Imprint University of Nebraska Press Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Edited by Frederic W. Gleach Illustrations 8 photographs, 1 illustration UK Release Date 2014-11-01 AU Release Date 2014-11-01 NZ Release Date 2014-11-01 US Release Date 2014-11-01 DEWEY 301.09 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Histories of Anthropology Annual We've got this

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