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Book SynopsisShowcases geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have presented their methods and theories to the public and in general to a variety of audiences. Essays showcase the research and personalities of Alexander Goldenweiser, Robert Lowie, Harlan I. Smith, Fustel de Coulanges, Edmund Leach, Carl Withers, and Margaret Mead, among others.
Trade Review“This volume is part of an excellent series on the history of anthropology. There is no current series like it, and the editors are among the best scholars in this field.”—Paul Shankman, author of
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy “Well worth the reading. It is a valuable addition to the genre.”—Frank A. Salamone, author of
Charlie Parker: The Trickster of JazzTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsEditors’ Introduction1. The Falling-Out between Alexander Goldenweiser and Robert Lowie: Two Personalities, Two Visions of AnthropologySergei Kan2. Forms of Relatedness: Harlan Smith and the Taxonomic MethodDorothee Schreiber3. Echoes of the Class Struggle in France: Exoticism, Religion, and Politics in Fustel de Coulanges’s The Ancient CityRobert Launay4. “I Have Not Advanced a Single Theory”: Mayan Ruins, Popular Culture, and Academic Authority in 19th-Century AmericaFernando Armstrong-Fumero5. Edmund Leach and the Rise of Cultural Polyvocality: A Case Study from the Ulúa Valley, HondurasKathryn M. Hudson6. Anthropology in CubaLeif Korsbaek and Marcela Barrios Luna7. An Unfinished Ethnography: Carl Withers’s Cuban Fieldwork and the Book That Never WasJorge L. Giovannetti8. Reading “The Redbook Columns”Susan R. TrencherContributors
