A Social History of Anthropology in the United States

ISBN-13: 9781350076211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 230 str.

Thomas C. Patterson

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the social history of anthropology in the United States, examining the circumstances that gave rise to the discipline and illuminating the role of anthropology in the modern world.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Nation-Building on the Edge of Empires, 1600-1877  2. Anthropology in the Age of the Robber Barons, 1860-1929  3. Anthropology and the Search for Social Order, 1929-1945  4. Decolonization, the Cold War, and McCarthyism, 1945-1973  5. Crises, Neoliberalism, and Globalization, 1973-2000  6. Anthropology in the New Gilded Age, 1990-2019

O autorze

Thomas C. Patterson is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.