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Who killed Bob Shafer, noted and notorious paleoanthroplogist? When he disappears on the eve of his triumph over rival scientist at a conference in an exotic East African city, suspicion of foul-play emerges immediately, for Shafer had made many enemies. Discovery of his ravaged skeleton a year later in a remote fossil locale casts a web of mutual suspicion upon Shafer's many rivals, a wronged student, a jilted lover. Caught in the web are two young graduate students, he the son of the most feared man in the nation of Asalia, she an American struggling up from a lower-class background in a male-dominated field. Their growing mutual attraction is blighted by fear and mistrust as, one by one, the field of suspects narrows. Written from firsthand experience of fossil fieldwork, the story brings you face to face with the hazards and human conflicts of the search for our earliest ancestors.
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• Chapter 1 The Nineteenth Century and the Evolutionists,
• Chapter 2 Field Workers and Early Informants,
• Chapter 3 The Turn of the Century: The Diffusionist Schools,
• Chapter 4 American Anthropology,
• Chapter 5 The French Tradition and the Institut d'ethnologie,
• Chapter 6 The American Tradition from the End of the First World War to the 1950s,
• Chapter 7 British Functionalist Anthropology,
• Chapter 8 Mauss' Student and the Institut d'ethnologie in the Interwar Years,
• Chapter 9 The European Schools,
• Chapter 10 Latin America,
• Chapter 11 Asia,
• Chapter 12 The French-speaking Schools from the End of the Second World War to the 1980s,
• Chapter 13 The American Schools: Third and Fourth Generations,
• Chapter 14 The British Schools Since 1945.
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This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students of anthropology.
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• 1. The Journey Towards Anthropology
• 2. Growth of Anthropology as a Discipline in Cameroon
• 3. The Pan-African Association of Anthropologists (PAAA) and Collaboration with Others
• 4. Anthropology, Tradition, and Contemporary Sociopolitical Realities
• 5. Applied Anthropology -- the Future of Anthropology in Africa.

"This book documents key features in the life of the father of anthropology in Cameroon, Professor Paul Nchoji Nkwi. The conversations within these pages chronicle, in his own words, how he came to anthropology and how the discipline shaped and still shapes his trajectory. One work does not suffice to elucidate all that Nkwi has contributed to the discipline of Anthropology in Cameroon and beyond; nevertheless, this book is a starting point. As the founding president of the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists (PAAA), Nkwi has been a trail blazer, sowing the seeds, nurturing the shoots, and grooming budding African anthropologists in their investigation of that great anthropological question: what it means to be human. In discussing the transformation of anthropology from the handmaiden of colonialism to the advocate of identity, voice, and a means for Africa to engage with and interact within contemporary society, Nkwi reveals insights regarding, among others, the birth and growth of the discipline in Cameroon, the founding of the PAAA, and the applicability of the subject to the changing and challenging landscape that characterizes today's globalized world. Likewise, blending theory and practice, he weaves a formidable tale of anthropological thought from an Africanist perspective through his notion of an African Pragmatic Socialism as a way of delving into, making sense of, and addressing the reality of the 21st century on the African continent and possibly beyond."-- Provided by publisher

• v. 1. 1916-20
• v. 2. 1920-35.

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. During his time there, McIlwraith gained intimate knowledge of the Nuxalk culture and of their struggle to survive in the face of massive depopulation, loss of traditional lands, and the efforts of the Canadian government to ban the potlatch. McIlwraith's resulting ethnography, The Bella Coola Indians (1948), is widely considered the finest published study of a Northwest Coast First Nation. This volume is a rich complement to McIlwraith's classic work, incorporating his letters from the field with previously unpublished essays on the Nuxalk. Vivid and lively, the letters show the human side of the anthropologist, and provide a fascinating insight into the famous Northwest winter ceremonials and potlatch - events in which McIlwraith was one of the few white men privileged to participate as a dancer and partner.
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Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist, T.F. McIlwraith, spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. During his time there, McIlwraith gained intimate knowledge of the Nuxalk culture and their struggle to survive in the face of massive depopulation, loss of traditional lands, and the efforts of the Canadian government to ban the potiatch. McIlwraith's resulting ethnography, The Bella Coola Indians (1948), is widely considered to be the finest study ever published about a Northwest Coast First Nation. This volume is a rich complement to McIlwraith's classic work, incorporating his letters from the field as well as rare, previously unpublished essays on the Nuxalk. Vivid and lively, the letters show the human side of the anthropologist, and shed invaluable light on the famous Northwest winter ceremonials and potiatch - events into which McIlwraith, as one of the few white men privileged to participate as a dancer and partner, had unique insight. Extensive editorial annotations and striking photographs make this book a pleasurable read that will appeal to anthropologists and historians, as well as those with interests in Northwest cultures and the history of anthropology in Canada.
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• Immigrant daughter
• New woman
• Student at Columbia
• Maggie Wilson and Ojibwa women's stories
• Lusty Shamans in the Midwest
• Fieldwork in Brazil
• Writing Afro-Brazilian culture in New York
• The early ethnography of race and gender.

Ruth Landes (1908-91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes's life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict. Landes's rejection of domestic life led to an early divorce. Her ideas regarding gender roles also shaped her 1930s fieldwork among the Ojibwa, where she worked closely with Maggie Wilson to produce a masterpiece study of gender relations, The Ojibwa Woman. Her growing prominence and subsequent work in Bahia, Brazil, was marked by outstanding fieldwork and another landmark study, The City of Women. This was a tumultuous time for Landes, who was accused of being a spy, and her remarkable work fed the envy of such prominent scholars as Melville Herskovits and Margaret Mead. Ultimately, however, the errors and excesses that her critics complained of long ago now point us to the innovations for which she is responsible and that give her work its lasting value and power.
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• Chapter I Introduction - anthropologists and ethics. Part 1 Debates: "like a horse in blinkers" - a political history of anthropology's research ethics
• "being there" - the magic of presence or the metephysics of morality
• "clubbed to death" - anthropology, the Yanomami, science and ethics
• "the blind men and the elephant" - the challenge of representing the Rwandan genocide. Part 2 Dilemmas: everyday ethics - a personal journey in rural Ireland, 1980-2001
• "to tell or not to tell" - ethics and secrecy in anthropology and childbearing in rural Malawi
• the construction of otherness in modern Greece - the state, the church and the study of religious minorities
• an appropriate question? the propriety of anthropological analysis in the Austrailian political arena. (Part contents).
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• Chapter I: Introduction: Anthropologists and Ethics-- Part One: Debates-- Chapter II: 'Like a Horse in Blinkers': A Political History of Anthropology's Research Ethics-- Chapter III: 'Being There': The magic of presence or the metephysics of morality-- Chapter IV: 'Clubbed to Death': Anthropology, the Yanomami, Science and Ethics-- Chapter V: 'The Blind Men and the Elephant': the Challenge of Representing the Rwandan Genocide-- Part Two: Dilemmas-- Chapter VI: Everyday Ethics: a Personal Journey in Rural Ireland,
• 1980-2001-- Chapter VII: 'To Tell or Not to Tell': Ethics and Secrecy in Anthropology and Childbearing in Rural Malawi-- Chapter VIII: The Construction of Otherness in Modern Greece: the State, the Church and the Study of Religious Minorities-- Chapter IX: An Appropriate Question? The Propriety of Anthropological Analysis in the Austrailian Political Arena-- Chapter X: 'A Spectrum of Grey': Some Reflections on Morality from Inside and Outside the British Magical Subculture-- Chapter XI: Revealing a Popular South African Deceit: the Ethical Challenges of an Etymological Exercise.
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Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable aspect of other peoples' morality - religion, social control, sin, virtue, evil, duty, purity and pollution. But what of the examination of anthropology itself, and of its agendas, epistemes, theories and praxes? In 1991, Raymond Firth spoke of social anthropology as an essentially moral discipline. Is such a view outmoded in a postmodern era? Do anthropological ethics have to be re-thought each generation as the conditions of the discipline change, and as choices collide with moral alternatives? The Ethics of Anthropology looks at some of these crucial issues as they reflect on researcher relations, privacy, authority, secrecy and ownership of knowledge. The book combines theoretical papers and case studies from eminent scholars including Lisette Josephides, Steven Nugent, Marilyn Silverman, Andrew Spiegel and Veronica Strang. Showing how the topic of ethics goes to the heart of anthropology, it raises the controversial question of why - and for whom - the anthropological discipline functions.
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• 1. The Birth of "Ciencias Antropologicas" at the University of Buenos Aires, 1955-1965 (Rosana Guber and Sergio Visacovsky)
• 2. "My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism": Bogoras, Boas, and the Politics of Soviet Anthropology of the late 1920s-early 1930s (Sergei Kan)
• 3. Taking Ethnological Training Outside the Classroom: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition as Field School (Nancy J. Parezo and Don D. Fowler)
• 4. Presentist History as a Means to Overturn Qualified Authority: A (False) Warrant for a New Archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s (R. Lee Lyman)
• 5. "Pigs for Dance Songs": Reo Fortune's Empathetic Ethnography of the Arapesh Roads (Lise Dobrin and Ira Bashkow)
• 6. Diamond Jenness's Arctic Ethnography and the Potential for a Canadian Anthropology (Robert L. A. Hancock)
• 7. Reflections on Departmental Traditions and Social Cohesion in American Anthropology (Regna Darnell)
• 8. Anthropology, Theory and Research in Iroquois Studies, 1980-1990: Reflections from a Disability Studies Perspective (Gail Landsman)
• 9. A Swedish Ethnographer in Sulawesi: Walter Kaudern (Christer Lindberg)
• 10. Culture and Personality In Henry's Backyard: Boasian War Allegories in Children's Science Writ Large Stories (Elizabeth Stassinos).
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Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology are included, along with reviews and shorter articles. Volume 2 features telling assessments of the careers and legacies of anthropologists Walter Kaudern, Reo Fortune, and Diamond Jenness. Other topics include the history of Iroquoian research, the rise of the New Archaeology in the 1960s, the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Soviet anthropology in the 1920s and 1930s, the emergence of the discipline in modern Argentina, and the relationship between departmental traditions and society in North America.
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• I. Introduction: How I Became an Anthropologist II. Language III. Data Gathering IV. The Participant Observer V. Becoming One of Them VI. Collecting VII. Non-horticultural Food Quest VIII. Kapauku Culture and the Concept of "Primitive Society" IX. Kapauku Personality X. Kapauku Mathematics XI. Quantity Obsession XII. Economy Ceremonies XIII. Life Cycle Ceremonies XIV. Law XV. Two Kapauku Legal Cases XVI. Theft of Pigs and Embezzlement XVII. Rape and Adultery XVIII. War XIX. Magic and Religion XX. Health, Sickness and Medicine XXI. Changes Introduced by the Encroaching Western World XXII. My Research and the Dutch Administration XXIII. Departure from the Kamu XXIV. Afterword: Leopold Pospisil, Anthropology, and the Kapauku (Jirik & Soukup).
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When Leopold Pospisil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku, who reputedly had no laws. Skeptical of the idea that any society could exist without laws, Pospisil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku. Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among them, Pospisil discovered that the supposedly primitive society possessed laws, rules, and social structures that were as sophisticated as they were logical. Drawing on his research and experiences among the Kapauku-he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979-Pospisil broke new ground in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on Kapauku law. This memoir of Pospisil's experience is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war told with humor and humility and accompanied by a wealth of the author's personal photos from the time.
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• Growing up along the color line, 1895-1918
• A Harlem love story, 1919-1927
• Onto the world stage, 1920s
• Remapping a marriage, career, and worldview, 1927-1933
• Becoming a writer and anthropologist, 1930s
• Africa at last, 1936
• Madrid to Moscow, political commitments deepen, 1936-1939
• Returning home and finding a new voice, 1939-1945
• Into the Congo, 1946
• American arguments, 1946-1950
• The United Nations and a world political family, 1950-1956
• Standing tall: the Cold War and politics of repression, 1950s
• A failing body and a hopeful heart, 1958-1961
• Always the fighter: a pen as her weapon, 1961-1965.

Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment-an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century. Chronicling Essie's eventful life, the book explores her influence on her husband's early career and how she later achieved her own unique political voice. Essie's friendships with a host of literary icons and world leaders, her renown as a fierce defender of justice, her defiant testimony before Senator Joseph McCarthy's infamous anti-communist committee, and her unconventional open marriage that endured for over 40 years-all are brought to light in the pages of this inspiring biography. Essie's indomitable personality shines through, as do her contributions to United States and twentieth-century world history.
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• Introduction / Richard J. Preston and Harvey A. Feit
• 1. Richard Slobodin's Ethnography and Human Nature / Richard J. Preston
• 2. Dick Slobodin: The Anthropology of a Divided Self / Sam Ajzenstat
• 3. Slobodin as Example: A Note on a Dialectics of Style / Kenneth Little
• 4. Writing against the Grain of Materialist Orthodoxy: Richard Slobodin and the Teetl'it Gwich'in / Robert Wishart and Michael Asch
• 5. Histories of the Past, Histories of the Future: The Committed Anthropologies of Richard Slobodin, Frank G. Speck, and Eleanor Leacock / Harvey A. Feit
• 6. Slobodin "among the Metis, " 1938-98: Anthropologist, Scholar, Historian, and Fieldworker par excellence / Mary Black-Rogers
• 7. Richard Slobodin and the Creation of the Amerindian Rebirth Book / Antonia Mills
• 8. Richard Slobodin as Scholar of Societies / David J. Damas
• 9. Caribou Hunt / Richard Slobodin.

A collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Métis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.

• List of Illustrations Series Editors' Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. The Early Years
• 2. Sakhalin
• 3. Beginning a Professional Career in the Capital
• 4. Scholarship and Activism during the 1905 Revolution
• 5. The Last Decade before the Storm
• 6. The Years of Turmoil, 1914-17
• 7. Building a New Anthropology in the "City of the Living Dead"
• 8. The NEP Era and the Last Years of Shternberg's Life
• 9. All Humanity Is One Conclusion Notes References Index.
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This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country's peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethnographic research in northeastern Siberia, was one of the anthropologists who directed this survey and consequently played a major role in influencing the professionalization of anthropology in the Soviet Union. But Shternberg was much more than a government anthropologist. Under the new regime he continued his work as the senior curator of the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, which began in the early 1900s. In the last decade of his life Shternberg also played a leading role in establishing a new Soviet school of cultural anthropology and in training a cohort of professional anthropologists. True to the ideals of his youth, he also continued an active involvement in the intellectual life of the Jewish community, even though the new regime was making it increasingly difficult. This in-depth biography explores the scholarly and political aspects of Shternberg's life and how they influenced each other. It also places his career in both national and international perspectives, showing the context in which he lived and worked and revealing the important developments in Russian anthropology during these tumultuous years.
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• Series Editors' Introduction
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Note on Translations
• 1. Building the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University
• 2. Franz Boas and His Early Students, 1901-1915
• 3. Race and the Quest for Social Justice
• 4. Folklore and Ruins in Mexico and Puerto Rico
• 5. Conflict, War, and Censure
• 6. Preponderance of Women Students
• 7. Loss and Loneliness
• 8. The Last Cohort of Boas's Students
• 9. Rescuing Scientists
• 10. After Retirement
• Appendix: Tribal and Historical Designations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index --

Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Levy Zumwalt's two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual. Zumwalt takes the reader through the most vital period in the development of Americanist anthropology and Boas's rise to dominance in the subfields of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Boas's emergence as a prominent public intellectual, particularly his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I, reveals his struggle against the forces of nativism, racial hatred, ethnic chauvinism, scientific racism, and uncritical nationalism. Boas was instrumental in the American cultural renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, training students and influencing colleagues such as Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Botkin, Alan Lomax, Langston Hughes, and others involved in combating racism and the flourishing Harlem Renaissance. He assisted German and European emigre intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany to relocate in the United States and was instrumental in organizing the denunciation of Nazi racial science and American eugenics. At the end of his career Boas guided a network of former student anthropologists, who spread across the country to university departments, museums, and government agencies, imprinting his social science more broadly in the world of learned knowledge. Franz Boas is a magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, social science, visual and performing arts, and America's public sphere during a period of great global upheaval and democratic and social struggle. .
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• Cover; Half-tltle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; One: Anthropology in Israel: A Knowledge Field in Israeli Culture and Society; Israeli Anthropology and Its Neighboring Disciplines: Cohabition or Fenced-Off Plots?; The Geopolitical Boundaries of Israeli Anthropology; Keys to Interpretation and Analysis; Studying the History of Anthropology/Anthropologies; Two: Research, Teaching, and Academe from the Margins Inward: An Emergent Discipline in an Emergent Society; Periods of Development; Points of View on the Discipline; Sources of Information.

• Anthropology at the Hebrew University: Courtship and RejectionsForeign Fields and Immigrants: Anthropological Activity outside the Academy; Anthropology at the Universities after the Mid-1960s: A Legitimate Pairing; Anthropologists at Museums; Anthropology at Colleges of Education; Applied Anthropologists; The National Agenda Shapes the Academic Agenda; Euro-Anglo-American Anthropology Shapes Israeli Anthropology; Three: The Israeli Anthropological Association as a Site of Anthropological Practice; The History and Nature of Professional Associations.

• Organizational, Professional, Scientific, National, and Social Characteristics of the IAAThe IAA and the Boundaries of Anthropology; The IAA as an Israeli Association; The IAA as a Professional Organization; The IAA as a Guild; The Publication of an Anthropological Journal; Membership in the IAA as a Signifier of Identity; Political Activity and Social Engagement; The IAA as a Lever for Personal and Scientific Development and Advancement; The IAA's Autonomy; The Evolution of the IAA; Four: Life Courses of Israeli Anthropologists; (My) Introduction to Anthropology.

• Methods for Studying the Images and Life Paths of AnthropologistsThe Materials: Texts, Psychological Tests, and Life-Course Narratives; The Interviewed Anthropologists; The Interviews: Context and Methodology; Images in the Life Courses of Anthropologists in Israel; Motivations, Images, Drives, and Life Courses of Anthropologists in Israel; Anthropologists in Israel: Characteristics and Numbers; Five: Israeli Anthropology: The Discipline at Home; Israeli Anthropologists Study Their Home; An Anthropologist Studying Anthropology at Home: The Reflexive Dimension.

• Identities, Motives, and Drives: Anthropologists Making CareersThe Role of Nationalism in the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge in Israel: A Comparative View with Other Disciplines; Anthropology Builds a Nation: A Comparative View of Anthropology's Contribution to Nation Building in Turkey; Israelization of Anthropology and Anthropologization of Israel; Applied Anthropology within and without the Academy; Between the Global and the Local, Center and Periphery, Metropole and Provinces; Israeli Anthropology and Colonialism; Anthropology "On Behalf Of" and Anthropology"For the Benefit Of."

In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their ""home""-in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel by Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which arrived in Israel in the early twentieth century but did not have an official place in Israeli universities until the 1960s.Through archival research, observations and interviews conducted with active Israeli anthropologists, Abuhav creates a thorough picture of the discipline from its roots in the Mandate period to its current place in the Israeli academy. Abuhav begins by examining anthropology's disciplinary borders and practices, addressing its relationships to neighboring academic fields and ties to the national setting in which it is practiced. Against the background of changes in world anthropology, she traces the development of Israeli anthropology from its pioneering first practitioners-led by Raphael Patai, Erich Brauer, and Arthur Ruppin-to its academic breakthrough in the 1960s with the foreign-funded Bernstein Israel Research Project. She goes on to consider the role and characteristics of the field's professional association, the Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA), and also presents biographical sketches of fifty significant Israeli anthropologists. While Israeli anthropology has historically been limited in the numbers of its practitioners, it has been expansive in the scope of its studies. Abuhav brings a first-hand perspective to the crises and the highs, lows, and upheavals of the discipline of Israeli anthropology, which will be of interest to anthropologists, historians of the discipline, and scholars of Israeli studies.
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• List of Illustrations Series Editors' Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Note on Translations
• 1. Ardently Desired Boy: Young Boas and His Family
• 2. Student Life into Its Deepest Depths: Boas at University
• 3. In Heaven, in Love, and Separation: Preparing for the Arctic Voyage
• 4. Creating a Future for Us: To Baffin Land and Back
• 5. Divided Desires: Pulled between New York and Germany
• 6. West to the Indians: Northwest Coast Fieldwork, Employment by Science, and Marriage
• 7. All Our Hopes Came to Such a Disgrace: Boas at Clark University
• 8. The World's Columbian Exposition: Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam
• 9. Your Orphan Boy: Struggling to Find a Place
• 10. The Greatest Undertaking of Its Kind: The Jesup North Pacific Expedition
• 11. Taking Hold in New York: From the amnh to Columbia University Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index .
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Rosemary Levy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist's birth in Minden, Germany, in 1858 and ends with his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906, while also examining his role in training professional anthropologists from his berth at Columbia University in New York City. Zumwalt follows the stepping-stones that led Boas to his vision of anthropology as a four-field discipline, a journey demonstrating especially his tenacity to succeed, the passions that animated his life, and the toll that the professional struggle took on him. Zumwalt guides the reader through Boas's childhood and university education, describes his joy at finding the great love of his life, Marie Krackowizer, traces his 1883 trip to Baffin Land, and recounts his efforts to find employment in the United States. A central interest in the book is Boas's widely influential publications on cultural relativism and issues of race, particularly his book The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), which reshaped anthropology, the social sciences, and public debates about the problem of racism in American society. Franz Boas presents the remarkable life story of an American intellectual giant as told in his own words through his unpublished letters, diaries, and field notes. Zumwalt weaves together the strands of the personal and the professional to reveal Boas's love for his family and for the discipline of anthropology as he shaped it. .
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