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Author Gilkeson, John S., 1948-

Title Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965 / John S. Gilkeson.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge books online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references index.
Summary "This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a "complex whole" far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's "the best which has been thought and said," so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Culture in the American grain -- 2. Social class in the ethnography of the American scene -- 3. The psychology of culture and the American character -- 4. The drift of American values -- 5. America as a civilization.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Ethnology -- United States -- History.
Ethnology.
United States.
History.
United States -- Civilization.
Civilization.
Social classes -- United States -- History.
Social classes.
Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History.
Cultural pluralism.
Subculture -- United States -- History.
Subculture.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Subcultures.
Other Form: Print version: Gilkeson, John S., 1948- Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521766722 (DLC) 2010022339 (OCoLC)635480026
ISBN 9780511779558 (electronic book)
0511779550 (electronic book)
9780511932731 (electronic book)
0511932731 (electronic book)
9780521766722
0521766729