In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9781138510869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 261 str.

Herbert S. Lewis

Opis

This book argues that the history and character of modern anthropology has been egregiously distorted to the detriment of this intellectual pursuit and academic discipline

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences
2 The Radical Transformation of Anthropology: History Seen through the Annual Meetings
of the AAA, 1955 2005
3 Anthropology Then and Now
4 Was Anthropology the Child, the Tool, or the Handmaiden of Colonialism?
5 Imagining Anthropology's History
6 The Passion of Franz Boas
7 Franz Boas: Boon or Bane?
8 American Anthropology and the Cold War
9 Anthropology or Cultural and Critical Theory?
Epilogue
References
Index

O autorze

Herbert S. Lewis