One Discipline, Four Ways
British, German, French, and American Anthropology
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One Discipline, Four Ways
British, German, French, and American Anthropology
One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology—British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials.
Moving from E. B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich, meanwhile, articulates the development of German anthropology, paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States.
Moving from E. B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich, meanwhile, articulates the development of German anthropology, paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States.
408 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2005
The Halle Lectures
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
History: History of Ideas
Reviews
Table of Contents
Foreword by Chris Hann
Britain and the Commonwealth by Fredrik Barth
1. The Rise of Anthropology in Britain, 1830-1898
2. From the Torres Straits to the Argonauts, 1898-1922
3. Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, 1920-1945
4. The Golden Age, 1945-1970
5. Enduring Legacies of the British Tradition
The German-Speaking Countries by Andre Gingrich
1. Prelude and Overture: From Early Travelogues to German Enlightenment
2. From the Nationalist Birth of Volkskunde to the Establishment of Academic Diffusionism: Branching Off from the International Mainstream
3. From the Late Imperial Era to the End of the Republican Interlude: Creative Subaltern Tendencies, Larger and Smaller Schools of Anthropology
4. German Anthropology during the Nazi Period: Complex Scenarios of Collaboration, Persecution, and Competition
5. Anthropology in Four German-Speaking Countries: Key Elements of Post-World War II Developments to 1989
The French-Speaking Countries by Robert Parkin
1. Pre-Durkheimian Origins
2. Durkheim and His Era
3. Mauss, Other Durkheimians, and Interwar Developments
4. Structuralism and Marxism
5. Practice, Hierarchy, and Postmodernism
The United States by Sydel Silverman
1. The Boasians and the Invention of Cultural Anthropology
2. Postwar Expansion, Materialisms, and Mentalisms
3. Bringing Anthropology into the Modern World
4. Rebellions and Reinventions
5. American Anthropology at the End of the Century
References
Index
Britain and the Commonwealth by Fredrik Barth
1. The Rise of Anthropology in Britain, 1830-1898
2. From the Torres Straits to the Argonauts, 1898-1922
3. Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, 1920-1945
4. The Golden Age, 1945-1970
5. Enduring Legacies of the British Tradition
The German-Speaking Countries by Andre Gingrich
1. Prelude and Overture: From Early Travelogues to German Enlightenment
2. From the Nationalist Birth of Volkskunde to the Establishment of Academic Diffusionism: Branching Off from the International Mainstream
3. From the Late Imperial Era to the End of the Republican Interlude: Creative Subaltern Tendencies, Larger and Smaller Schools of Anthropology
4. German Anthropology during the Nazi Period: Complex Scenarios of Collaboration, Persecution, and Competition
5. Anthropology in Four German-Speaking Countries: Key Elements of Post-World War II Developments to 1989
The French-Speaking Countries by Robert Parkin
1. Pre-Durkheimian Origins
2. Durkheim and His Era
3. Mauss, Other Durkheimians, and Interwar Developments
4. Structuralism and Marxism
5. Practice, Hierarchy, and Postmodernism
The United States by Sydel Silverman
1. The Boasians and the Invention of Cultural Anthropology
2. Postwar Expansion, Materialisms, and Mentalisms
3. Bringing Anthropology into the Modern World
4. Rebellions and Reinventions
5. American Anthropology at the End of the Century
References
Index