Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections

by George W. Stocking Jr.

Delimiting Anthropology makes available sixteen essays from the influential career of George W. Stocking, Jr., the world's preeminent historian of anthropology. The essays are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking's own research over four decades. In his introductory comments he places each essay in the context of his entire body of work.

The first quartet focuses on the work of Franz Boas and the emergence of "Boasian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299174506
• ISBN13: 9780299174507
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"