The Routledge dictionary of anthropologists / / Gerald Gaillard ; translated by James Bowman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808589603321
• Autore: Gaillard Gérald
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-58579-9; 0-203-59851-2; 1-280-05657-6; 0-203-49900-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Disciplina: 301/.092/2; B
• Soggetti: Anthropologists
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; General remarks and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; I The nineteenth century and the evolutionists; II Field workers and early informants; III The turn of the century: The diffusionist schools; IV American anthropology; V The French tradition and the Institut d'ethnologie; VI The American tradition from the end of the First World War to the 1950s; VII British functionalist anthropology; VIII Mauss's students and the Institut d'ethnologie in the interwar years; IX The other European schools; X Latin America; XI Asia; XII The French-speaking schools from the end of the Second World War to the 1980sXIII The American schools: Third and fourth generations; XIV The British schools since 1945; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will ; prove indispensable for students of anthropology.