The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America

by Regna Darnell

Book Overview

In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496224175
• ISBN13: 9781496224170
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"