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Book SynopsisExplores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the US, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, including luminaries such as Franz Boas and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and lesser-known but important anthropological work by Berthold Laufer and Robin Ridington, among others.
Trade Review“Another fine contribution to the diverse histories of our field. Like all volumes in the series, Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders challenges us to think beyond standard renditions of an anthropology that presumably ‘stays put’ in space and time. Exploring the work of both well-known and largely forgotten anthropologists, this volume compels us to travel into theoretical and methodological borderlands where traditions like functionalism, structuralism, and applied anthropology may not be exactly what they seem.”—Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography
Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsEditors’ Introduction1. “China to the Anthropologist”: Franz Boas, Berthold Laufer, and a Road Not Taken in Early American AnthropologyLaurel Kendall2. A. M. Hocart: Reflections on a Master Ethnologist and His WorkCharles D. Laughlin3. Malinowski and the “Native Question”Mark Lamont4. Radcliffe-Brown and “Applied Anthropology” at Cape Town and SydneyIan Campbell5. "The Department Was in Some Disarray": The Politics of Choosing a Successor to S. F. Nadel, 1957Geoffrey Gray and Doug Munro6. An Elegy for a Structuralist Legacy: Lévi-Strauss, Cultural Relativism, and the Universal Capacities of the Human MindRegna Darnell7. Lévi-Strauss's Approach to Systems of Classification: Categories in Northwest Coast CulturesAbraham Rosman and Paula Rubel8. Lévi-Strauss on Theoretical Thought and Universal HistoryMichael Asch9. Historical Massacres and Mythical Totalities: Reading Marshall Sahlins on Two American FrontiersLars Rodseth10. Anthropologists as Perpetrators and Perpetuators of Oral Tradition: The Lectures of Kenelm O. L. Burridge and Robin Ridington, StorytellersLindy-Lou FlynnBook ReviewsContributors
