| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Contents |
Leslie A. White and the socio-politics of war / William J. Peace -- Significant form : Sapir's phonemic poetics / Richard Handler -- William Fielding Ogburn's fostering of Sol Tax's explorations of small-scale mercantile capitalism in highland Guatemala / Stephen O. Murray -- Stephen Leacock : the not-so-funny story of his evolutionary ethnology and Canada's First Peoples / David A. Nock -- J.N.B. Hewitt / Elisabeth Tooker and Barbara Graymont -- Cushing at Cornell : the early years of a pioneering anthropologist / Frederic W. Gleach -- The American school and scientific racism in early American anthropology / Adam Dewbury -- Missing ancestors and missing narratives / Andrew Lyons -- Anténor Firmin, nineteenth century pioneering anthropologist : his influence on anthropology in North America and the Caribbean / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Salvaging the Delaware big house ceremony : the history and legacy of Frank Speck's collaboration with the Oklahoma Delaware / Brice Obermeyer -- Applying anthropology in the interest of the state : John Collier, the Indian Office and the Bureau of Sociological Research / Elizabeth Guerrier -- Minorities in American anthropology : a personal view / David J. Banks |
| Summary |
Volume 3 of Histories of Anthropology features critical and biographical studies of Sir Richard Burton, Frank Hamilton Cushing, J.N.B. Hewitt, Stephen Leacock, Anténor Firmin, and Leslie A. White. Analytical topics include applied and collaborative anthropologies, Edward Sapir's phonemic poetics, mercantile proto-capitalism, the Delaware Big House ceremony, and race and racism in anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- History
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Anthropologists -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Anthropologists
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Anthropology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Darnell, Regna
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Gleach, Frederic W. (Frederic Wright), 1960-
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| ISBN |
9780803256545 |
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080325654X |
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128121356X |
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9781281213563 |
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