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, this volume not only
traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on
one another and assesses their future potentials. Moving from E. B.
Taylor 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 German
anthropology, 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.
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ISBN
9780226038278
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok