The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology

by George W. Stocking Jr.

Book Overview

For this collection, Stocking has written comments on each of the eight essays included, as well as an introduction providing autobiographical and historiographical context and an afterword reconsidering major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology. The essays themselves address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski; anthropology's powerfully mythic aspect and persistent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299134148
• ISBN13: 9780299134143
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"