Anthropology : : Ancestors and Heirs / / ed. by Stanley Diamond.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1980
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Studies in Anthropology ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (462 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-VI
  • INTRODUCTION Anthropological traditions: The participants observed
  • PART I: Anthropological traditions
  • Anthropological traditions: Their relationship as a dialectic
  • Anthropological traditions: Their uses and misuses
  • Anthropological traditions: Their definition
  • Anthropological traditions: Comparative aspects
  • PART II: National traditions
  • The United States: Racism and progress in the nineteenth century
  • Franz Boas: The academic response
  • Germany: Interpreting culture traits
  • The Soviet Union: The continuity of the great Russian tradition
  • Italy: Cultural anthropology reconsidered
  • The Netherlands : Structuralism before Lévi-Strauss
  • Scandinavia: All approaches are fruitful
  • India: A Western apprentice
  • Japan: An Asian reflex
  • Great Britain: Functionalism at home. A question of theory
  • Great Britain: Functionalism abroad A theory in question
  • PART III: Towards a critical anthropology
  • The Manchester School in Africa and Israel: A critique
  • Latin America: The anthropology of conquest
  • Germany: The search for a new ancestor
  • Yugoslavia: The practical critique of ideological Marxism
  • The United States: The cultural predicament of the anthropologist