LEADER 06117nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910955663803321 005 20240418054040.0 010 $a1-282-91646-7 010 $a9786612916465 010 $a0-299-24983-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000056169 035 $a(OCoLC)699519524 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10432123 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000437164 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11315403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437164 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10432130 035 $a(PQKB)11017410 035 $a(OCoLC)810038982 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12039 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10432123 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL291646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445135 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000056169 100 $a20100329d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGlimpses into my own black box $ean exercise in self-deconstruction /$fGeorge W. Stocking 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (247 pages) 225 1 $aHistory of anthropology ;$vv. 12 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-299-24984-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- My Life under Surveillance -- Documenting Surveillance -- 1. Autobiographical Recollections -- From the Lincoln School to Harvard College -- Pascal's Wager and Communist Politics at Harvard -- Divergent Family Histories within a WASP Tradition -- Imagining a Future with Wilhelmina Davis -- Life in the Working Class during the McCarthy Era -- American Civilization and Postivist Historiography at the University of Pennsylvania -- Political Disillusion and Historiographical Assumption -- Social History and Historiography at Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement Years -- The Berkeley Experience: Divorce, Family Breakup, and Consciousness Raising -- Tenure without a Book: Essays toward a New History of Anthropology -- From History to Anthropology at the University of Chicago -- Multicultural Travels with Carol Bowman: From Srpski Itebej to King's High Table across Boundaries in Time and Class -- From Huey Newton's Poster to the Harvard Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report: Settling in to a Cautious and Ambivalent Historicism -- Blocked Projects, False Starts, and Miscast Roles: The Travails of an Interdisciplinary Hybrid -- Disciplinary Marginality as a Condition of Productive Scholarship -- From Academic Striver to Disciplinary Doyen -- Conversations across a Widening Generation Gap -- Biography in an Autobiographical Context -- 2. Historiographical Reflections -- Inside an Historian's Study: The "Micro-technology" of a "Bottom-up" Historicism -- Intellectual Topographies, Concentric Models, Enduring Biases: Some Limitations of a Professed Historicism -- Interesting Questions and Blocked Researches: Notes on Anxiety and Method in My Historiography of Anthropology -- Revelatory Moments Unexplored: The Mead/Freeman Controversy and the Amplification of Anxiety in Present History. 327 $aFrom the Big Picture to the Biographical Vignette: The Ulterior Historiographical Motives of an Aging Old Historicist -- The Problematic Character of Influence: The "Gatekeeper" and a "New" History of Anthropology -- Doing "Good Work" : Thoughts on the Craft of One Historian -- 3. Octogenarian Afterthoughts: "Fragments Shored against My Ruins -- Further Steps down a Pyramid of Deterioration -- Conjuring a Readership: Yet Another Try at Influence -- Reconceptualizing Historicism: "Handling the Rich Complexities of the Lives of Others -- Office in a Storeroom: Trashing the Icons of a Scholarly Life -- Becoming an Octogenarian and Accentuating the Positive -- The Audacity of Hope and the Politics of Mr. In-between -- Notes from the Edge of the Abyss: The Serenity Prayer and Pascal's Wager -- Epilogue -- Penelope's Shroud, Zeno's Paradox, and the Closure of the Black Box -- Striving for Perfection and Accepting the Terminal Realities of Life: Final Notes on the Making and Completion of This Book -- Acknowledgments -- References Cited -- Index. 330 $aGeorge W. Stocking, Jr., has spent a professional lifetime exploring the history of anthropology, and his findings have shaped anthropologists' understanding of their field for two generations. Through his meticulous research, Stocking has shown how such forces as politics, race, institutional affiliations, and personal relationships have influenced the discipline from its beginnings. In this autobiography, he turns his attention to a subject closer to home but no less challenging. Looking into his own "black box," he dissects his upbringing, his politics, even his motivations in writing about himself. The result is a book systematically, at times brutally, self-questioning. An interesting question, Stocking says, is one that arouses just the right amount of anxiety. But that very anxiety may be the ultimate source of Stocking's remarkable intellectual energy and output. In the first two sections of the book, he traces the intersecting vectors of his professional and personal lives. The book concludes with a coda, "Octogenarian Afterthoughts," that offers glimpses of his life after retirement, when advancing age, cancer, and depression changed the tenor of his reflections about both his life and his work. This book is the twelfth and final volume of the influential History of Anthropology series. 410 0$aHistory of anthropology ;$vv. 12. 606 $aAnthropologists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aAnthropologists 676 $a301.092 676 $aB 700 $aStocking$b George W.$cJr.$g(George Ward),$f1928-2013.$0143201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955663803321 996 $aGlimpses into my own black box$94429762 997 $aUNINA