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One Discipline, Four Ways : British, German, French, and American Anthropology
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One Discipline, Four Ways : British, German, French, and American Anthropology Paperback - 2005

by Silverman, Sydel, Gingrich, Andre, Barth, Fredrik, Parkin, Robert

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  • Title One Discipline, Four Ways : British, German, French, and American Anthropology
  • Author Silverman, Sydel, Gingrich, Andre, Barth, Fredrik, Parkin, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-06-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3986944-6
  • ISBN 9780226038292 / 0226038297
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.14 x 0.89 in (22.81 x 15.60 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects Anthropology - Philosophy, Anthropology - History - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004024388
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306

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From the rear cover

One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology-British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials.

Moving from Edward Burnett Tylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich, meanwhile, articulates the development of anthropology in German, paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States.

About the author

Fredrik Barth is research fellow at the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and professor of anthropology at Boston University. Andre Gingrich is professor in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and head of the Anthropology Unit at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Robert Parkin is departmental lecturer in social anthropology at Oxford University. Sydel Silverman is president emerita of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and professor emerita of anthropology at the City University of New York.

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