{"product_id":"american-anthropology-and-company-historical-explorations-hardback-9780803243958","title":"American Anthropology and Company; Historical Explorations (Hardback) 9780803243958","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Anthropology and Company\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistorical Explorations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen O. Murray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803243958\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages, 3 figures, 11 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm, 0.724 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropology and Company\u003c\/i\u003e] is a solid contribution to the history of American anthropology with a salutary approach to interdisciplinarity.\"-Jeremy MacClancy, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropology and Company\u003c\/i\u003e, linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murray explores the connections between anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and history, in broad-ranging essays on the history of anthropology and allied disciplines. On subjects ranging from Native American linguistics to the pitfalls of American, Latin American, and East Asian fieldwork, among other topics, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropology and Compa\u003c\/i\u003eny presents the views of a historian of anthropology interested in the theoretical and institutional connections between disciplines that have always been in conversation with anthropology. Recurring characters include Edward Sapir, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Redfield, W. I. and Dorothy Thomas, and William Ogburn. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile histories of anthropology rarely cross disciplinary boundaries, Murray moves in essay after essay toward an examination of the institutions, theories, and social networks of scholars as never before, maintaining a healthy skepticism toward anthropologists' views of their own methods and theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor's Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOME OF ITS COMPANIONS\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part I\u003cbr\u003e1. Historical Inferences from Ethnohistorical Data: Boasian Views\u003cbr\u003e2. The Manufacture of Linguistic Structure\u003cbr\u003e3. Margaret Mead and the Professional Unpopularity of Popularizers\u003cbr\u003e4. American Anthropologists Discover Peasants\u003cbr\u003e5. The non-eclipse of Americanist anthropology during the 1930s and 40s\u003cbr\u003e6. The pre-Freudian Georges Devereux, the post-Freudian Alfred Kroeber, and Mohave sexuality\u003cbr\u003e7. Berkeley anthropology during the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e8. American anthropologists looking through Taiwanese culture.  (with Keelung Hong)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. SOCIOLOGY'S INCREASINGLY UNEASY RELATIONS WITH ANTHROPOLOGY\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part II\u003cbr\u003e9. W. I. Thomas, behaviorist ethnologist\u003cbr\u003e10. The postmaturity of sociolinguistics: Edward Sapir and Personality Studies in the Chicago Department of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e11. The reception of anthropological work in American sociology, 1921-1951\u003cbr\u003e12. The rights of research assistants and the rhetoric of political suppression: Morton Grodzins and the University of California Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study\u003cbr\u003e13. Resistance to sociology at Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e14. Does editing core anthropology and sociology journals increase citations to the editor?\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Doing history of anthropology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545953825048,"sku":"9780803243958","price":48.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-anthropology-and-company-historical-explorations-hardback-9780803243958","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}