Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology

And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology

By: George W. Stocking, Marcus Brainard (Translator)

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The Ethnographer's Magic may be read at several levels by practitioners from several disciplines: intellectual history, history of science, anthropology, even comparative literature, new cultural history, and literary criticism. Original in its design, it presents the historiographer as composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters deliberately and by chance, defensive at times, disengaging himself from academic political sensibilities over certain issues, but, above all, a primary researcher into the further reaches of anthropology as a profession and as a discipline. For this collection, Stocking has written comments on each of the eight essays included, as well as an introduction providing autobiographical and historiographical context and an afterwork reconsidering major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology. The essays themselves address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski; anthropology's powerfully mythic aspect and persistent strain of romantic primitivism; the contradictions of its relationship to the larger sociopolitical sphere; its problematic integration of a variety of natural scientific and humanistic inquiries; and the tension between its scientific aspirations and its subjectively acquired ""data"".

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography History History Theory & Methods Historiography Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Retrospective Prescriptive Reflections	p. 3
The Ethnographer's Magic: Fieldwork in British Anthropology from Tylor to Malinowski	p. 12
The Boas Plan for the Study of American Indian Languages	p. 60
Anthropology as Kulturkampf: Science and Politics in the Career of Franz Boas	p. 92
Ideas and Institutions in American Anthropology: Thoughts Toward a History of the Interwar Years	p. 114
Philanthropoids and Vanishing Cultures: Rockefeller Funding and the End of the Museum Era in Anglo-American Anthropology	p. 178
Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski: Archetypes from the Dreamtime of Anthropology	p. 212
The Ethnographic Sensibility of the 1920s and the Dualism of the Anthropological Tradition	p. 276
Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology	p. 342
Postscriptive Prospective Reflections	p. 362
References Cited	p. 375
Manuscript Sources	p. 419
Index	p. 421
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