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Chapter 1. Introduction: For a History of Anthropology in the Plural.- Chapter 2. People and Ideas from Elsewhere: Notes on Social Anthropology in the UK.- Chapter 3. French Anthropology, Ethnology of France and the Contemporary Turn.- Chapter 4. From Herder to Strecker: Birth and Developments of the Anthropological Notion of Culture in Germany.- Chapter 5. Cultural Anthropology in Italy in the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 6. Chronology of a Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology in Spain.- Chapter 7. From the Regime Ethnologists to the Democratic Generation: Histories of Portuguese Anthropology.- Chapter 8. Anthropology in Russia: From Nineteenth-Century Ethnography to the New Post-Soviet Anthropology.- Chapter 9. Indigenous Ethnologists, National Anthropologists, Post-colonial Intellectuals: The Trajectory of Anthropology in French-
Speaking West and Equatorial Africa.- Chapter 10. 10 A Nerve Centre of the Discipline on the Periphery of the Empire: South Africa and Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
Stefano Allovio.- Chapter 11. American Anthropology: Some Distinctive Features.- Chapter 12. From Hegemony to Fragmentation: North American Cultural Anthropology Over the Past Fifty Years.- Chapter 13. Trajectories and Subjects of Brazilian Anthropology.- Chapter 14. From the Study of Indigenous Cultures to the Critics of Modernity: On Anthropologym ade in Colombia.- Chapter 15. History of Anthropology in Mexico: From Nation Building to the Recognition of Diversity.- Chapter 16. Social Anthropology in India: Studying the Self in the Other.- Chapter 17. The Diverse Accounts of Anthropology in Viet Nam.- Chapter 18. Australian Anthropology in Its Colonial Context.- Chapter. 19 Five Paths for a History of the Pacific Islands.- Chapter 20. Chinese Perspectives on Anthropology and Ethnology.- Chapter 21. The Birth and Development of Anthropology in Arab Countries: A still Controversial and Marginalised Knowledge?.

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 04/03/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031750519, 978-3031750519
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      Chapter 1. Introduction: For a History of Anthropology in the Plural.- Chapter 2. People and Ideas from Elsewhere: Notes on Social Anthropology in the UK.- Chapter 3. French Anthropology, Ethnology of France and the Contemporary Turn.- Chapter 4. From Herder to Strecker: Birth and Developments of the Anthropological Notion of Culture in Germany.- Chapter 5. Cultural Anthropology in Italy in the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 6. Chronology of a Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology in Spain.- Chapter 7. From the Regime Ethnologists to the Democratic Generation: Histories of Portuguese Anthropology.- Chapter 8. Anthropology in Russia: From Nineteenth-Century Ethnography to the New Post-Soviet Anthropology.- Chapter 9. Indigenous Ethnologists, National Anthropologists, Post-colonial Intellectuals: The Trajectory of Anthropology in French-
      Speaking West and Equatorial Africa.- Chapter 10. 10 A Nerve Centre of the Discipline on the Periphery of the Empire: South Africa and Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
      Stefano Allovio.- Chapter 11. American Anthropology: Some Distinctive Features.- Chapter 12. From Hegemony to Fragmentation: North American Cultural Anthropology Over the Past Fifty Years.- Chapter 13. Trajectories and Subjects of Brazilian Anthropology.- Chapter 14. From the Study of Indigenous Cultures to the Critics of Modernity: On Anthropologym ade in Colombia.- Chapter 15. History of Anthropology in Mexico: From Nation Building to the Recognition of Diversity.- Chapter 16. Social Anthropology in India: Studying the Self in the Other.- Chapter 17. The Diverse Accounts of Anthropology in Viet Nam.- Chapter 18. Australian Anthropology in Its Colonial Context.- Chapter. 19 Five Paths for a History of the Pacific Islands.- Chapter 20. Chinese Perspectives on Anthropology and Ethnology.- Chapter 21. The Birth and Development of Anthropology in Arab Countries: A still Controversial and Marginalised Knowledge?.

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