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This unusual and ambitious book will be welcomed by all who wish to understand exactly what anthropology is and what anthropologists do. It summarizes, compares, and contrasts the ideas of ten prominent anthropologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing fundamental differences in their interpretations of human behavior and in the kinds of meaning they see in human affairs.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 384
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
22 December 1974
ISBN: 9780231036399
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
I. Introduction
II. The Rise of the Anti-Intellectual, by E.B. Tylor and Franz Boas
III. From Irrationality to Utility in Cultural Integration, by Benedict, Kroeber, Steward, and White
IV. The Transcendence of Society, by Emile Durkheim
V. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Study of Human Societies, by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and E.E. Evans-Pritchard
VI. Culture and Man's Inborn Character, by Bronislaw Malinowski