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One Discipline, Four Ways
One Discipline, Four Ways
Subtitle:
British, German, French, and American Anthropology
Book Category:
History > General
Author:
Fredrik Barth, Robert Parkin, Andre Gingrich, and Sydel Silverman
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
0226038297
ISBN 13:
9780226038292
Price:
USD 27.50
Publication Year:
2005

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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.

 
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Book Review and Awards

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award (2006)