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Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology - Softcover

Stocking, George W.

 
9780299134143: Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299134148 ISBN 13: 9780299134143
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The Ethnographer's Magic may be read at several levels by practitioners from several disciplines: intellectual history, history of science, anthropology, even comparative literature, new cultural history, and literary criticism. Original in its design, it presents the historiographer as composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters deliberately and by chance, defensive at times, disengaging himself from academic political sensibilities over certain issues, but, above all, a primary researcher into the further reaches of anthropology as a profession and as a discipline. For this collection, Stocking has written comments on each of the eight essays included, as well as an introduction providing autobiographical and historiographical context and an afterwork reconsidering major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology. The essays themselves address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski; anthropology's powerfully mythic aspect and persistent strain of romantic primitivism; the contradictions of its relationship to the larger sociopolitical sphere; its problematic integration of a variety of natural scientific and humanistic inquiries; and the tension between its scientific aspirations and its subjectively acquired ""data"".

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Victorian Anthropology; After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951; Delimiting Anthropology, and The Ethnographer's Magic. He founded the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press and edited its first eight volumes.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299134148
ISBN 13 
9780299134143
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
450
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