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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812641103321

Titolo

Central sites, peripheral visions [[electronic resource] ] : cultural and institutional crossings in the history of anthropology / / edited by Richard Handler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006

ISBN

0-299-21923-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vii, 279 p. : ill

Collana

History of anthropology ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HandlerRichard <1950->

Disciplina

301.09

Soggetti

Anthropology - History

Anthropology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anthropology on the periphery of the center -- The power of insult : ethnographic publication and emergent nationalism in the sixteenth century / David Koester -- Escape from the andamans : tracking, offshore incarceration and ethnology in the back of beyond / Kath Weston -- Where was Boas during the renaissance in Harlem? : diffusion, race, and the culture paradigm in the history of anthropology / Brad Evans -- Unfinished business : Robert Gelston Armstrong, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the history of anthropology at Chicago and in Nigeria / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- Kroeber and the California claims : historical particularism and cultural ecology in court / Arthur J. Ray.