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By Regna Darnell,Frederic W. Gleach

ISBN-10: 0803253362

ISBN-13: 9780803253360

Volume eight of the Histories of Anthropology Annual sequence, the most appropriate sequence released within the background of the self-discipline, explores nationwide anthropological traditions in Britain, the us, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. participants re-examine the main theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, together with the paintings of luminaries reminiscent of Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, and Marshall Sahlins, in addition to lesser-known yet very important anthropological paintings through Berthold Laufer, A. M. Hocart, Kenelm O. L. Burridge, and Robin Ridington, between others.
These essays study myriad topics corresponding to the pedagogical context of the anthropologist as a teller of reports approximately indigenous storytellers; the colonial context of British anthropological thought and its initiatives outdoors the countryside; the legacies of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism relating to tradition- particular styles; cognitive universals mirrored in empirical examples of kinship, delusion, language, classificatory platforms, and meant common psychological buildings; and the occupation of Marshall Sahlins and his trajectory from neo-evolutionism and structuralism towards an epistemological skepticism of pass- cultural miscommunication.

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