| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 261 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
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Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Sydel Silverman -- Introduction / Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald -- Franz Boas: scientist and public intellectual / Regna Darnell -- Ruth Benedict: relativist and universalist / Virginia Heyer Young -- A century of Margaret Mead / Ray McDermott -- Education and democracy in the anthropology of Gene Weltfish / Juliet Niehaus -- The social anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker / Jill B.R. Cherneff -- Culture and race in the classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American education / Richard Handler -- Human activity and a theory of schooling: an assessment of Solon Kimball's anthropology of education / Alexander Moore -- They are all our children: Eleanor Leacock and the anthropology of education / Eve Hochwald. |
| Summary |
Explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. The topics they addressed illustrate how the lens of American anthropology has long been focused on domestic issues. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Educational anthropology -- United States.
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Educational anthropology. |
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United States. |
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Anthropologists -- United States.
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Anthropologists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cherneff, Jill B. R.
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Hochwald, Eve.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Visionary observers. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 080326464X 9780803264649 (DLC) 2006009265 (OCoLC)65301705 |
| ISBN |
9780803257047 (electronic book) |
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080325704X (electronic book) |
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1280735198 |
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9781280735196 |
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