Methodology & History in Anthropology. Franz Baermann Steiner : : A Stranger in the World / / Richard Fardon, Jeremy Adler.

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeb...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. A BRIEF LIFE
  • PART I An Oriental in the West
  • Chapter 1 BEGINNINGS: THE PRAGUE GERMAN-JEWISH COMMUNITY
  • Chapter 2 STUDENT DAYS IN PRAGUE AND JERUSALEM
  • Chapter 3 FIRST ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES IN VIENNA AND LONDON, AND FIELDWORK IN SUB-CARPATHIAN RUTHENIA
  • Chapter 4 THE IMPACT OF THE EARLY ENGLISH YEARS
  • Chapter 5 THE EXILE
  • Chapter 6 THE OXFORD ANTHROPOLOGIST
  • PART II Orientpolitik, Value and Civilization: The Social Thought
  • Chapter 7 BEYOND ‘CULTURE CIRCLES’ THE FIELD TRIP REVISITED
  • Chapter 8 ZIONISM, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE
  • Chapter 9 ON SLAVERY
  • Chapter 10 RADCLIFFE-BROWN AND EVANS-PRITCHARD
  • Chapter 11 LABOUR AND VALUE
  • Chapter 12 CIVILIZATION AND TABOO
  • Chapter 13 SIMMEL AND ARISTOTLE
  • PART III The Poet Anthropologist
  • Chapter 14 CONQUESTS
  • Chapter 15 KAFKA IN ENGLAND
  • Chapter 16 THE CHIEF SOCIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE
  • Chapter 17 SUFFERING AND VALUE
  • Chapter 18 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL MATHESIS
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS