Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-96

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ISBN: 9781560003335 | 1560003332
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/30/1997

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"Bennett has produced a personalised and user-friendly, if idiosyncratic, critique of North American anthropology that is surprisingly contemporary in framing and language. Readers will quibble with many interpretations, but Bennett's qualms about anthropolgy, past and present, deserve answers."- Anthropological Forum

Preface

1. Classic Anthropology: An Introduction

(28)

2. Myth, Theory, and Value in Cultural Anthropology

(20)

3. Interdisciplinary Research and the Concept of Culture With an Epilogue concerning Chapters 2 and 3

(20)

4. The Micro-Macro Nexus in Classic and Post-Classic Anthropology

(32)

5. The Plains Indian Sun Dance: Leslie Spier's Historical Reconstruction, and Functionalist Research by Others With a Supplement: A Review of Subsequent Researches on the Sun Dance

101

(28)

6. Interpretations of Pueblo Indian Culture by Laura Thompson, Esther Goldfrank, Dorothy Eggan, and Others With Two Supplements:

129

(38)

1. Letters Received after Publication of Article

2. A Review of Subsequent Studies of Pueblo Culture and Behavior

7. Early and Late Functional Analysis: Bronislaw Malinowski's Baloma: Spirits of the Dead and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft With a Supplement: Some Subsequent Studies of Witchcraft with Special Reference to Attempts to Distinguish between Social Cultural, and Psychological Phenomena

167

(32)

8. A Problem in Social Organization: The Use of Kinship as an Organizing Principle for Instrumental Activities With an Epilogue, 1996

199

(20)

Leo A. Despres

9. Psychology and Anthropology: Modes of Interface as Represented in the Work of F.C. Bartlett, Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, and Gregory Bateson

219

(40)

10. A.L. Kroeber and the Concept of Culture as Superorganic

259

(28)

11. Walter W. Taylor and Americanist Archaeology's Search for a Concept of Culture

287

(28)

12. Applied and Action Anthropology: Problems of Ideology and Intervention With a Supplement: The Career of Sol Tax and the Genesis of Action Anthropology

315

(44)

13. The "Famous Lady Anthropologists": Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead With a Supplement: A Note on the Critique of Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Japanese Scholars

359

(20)

Michio Nagai

14. Populist Anthropology: Robert Lowie, Marvin Harris, and Clyde Kluckhohn

379

(22)

15. Epilogue: A Philosophical Voice at the End of the Classic Era: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

401

(12)

Some Afterwords

413

(2)

Index of Names

415

(8)

Index of Principal Topics

423

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Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-96

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