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  • In American Anthropology and Company linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murra... In American Anthropology and Company 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.... more
  • In American Anthropology and Company linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murra... In American Anthropology and Company 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.... more
  • 2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA Charles C. E... 2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race Experts Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role... more
  • Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s thro... Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950). Although he earned a medical degree de Angulo chose to live on an isolated... more
  • One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at... One of the more problematic sport spectacles in American history took place at the 1904 World s Fair in St. Louis which included the third modern Olympic Games. Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by... more
  • This volume emphasizes theory schools institutional connections social network... This volume emphasizes theory schools institutional connections social networks and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North Americanist anthropology. Regna Darnell’s fifty-year career brings unsurpassed interpretations both... more
  • This volume on the history of anthropology emphasizes schools of theory instit... This volume on the history of anthropology emphasizes schools of theory institutional connections social networks and collaborative research with North American Indigenous communities. Regna Darnell a fifty-year veteran of the field brings... more
  • Writing the history of American archaeology especially concerning eighteenth- ... Writing the history of American archaeology especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology s trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized... more
  • Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intel... Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821-88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. During his career which... more
  • Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intel... Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology is an intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821-88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. During his career which... more
  • A compelling examination of Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind. Comprised of... A compelling examination of Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind. Comprised of 104 life-size bronzes the Races of Mankind was the largest exhibit on race installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single... more
  • World s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful... World s fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological innovations each exposition showcased commercial and... more
  • The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago s i... The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago s innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958 the Meskwaki community near Tama Iowa became... more
  • This is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping n... This is the magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in shaping not only anthropology but also the sciences humanities and social science the visual and performing arts and America’s public sphere during a period of global upheaval... more
  • The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago s i... The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago s innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958 the Meskwaki community near Tama Iowa became... more
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