Glimpses into my own black box : an exercise in self-deconstruction / / George W. Stocking

• Autore: Stocking George W., Jr. (George Ward), <1928-2013.>
• Pubblicazione: Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.092; B
• Soggetto topico: Anthropologists - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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. ; From 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: George 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Glimpses into my own black box
• ISBN: 1-282-91646-7; 9786612916465; 0-299-24983-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955663803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of anthropology ; ; v. 12.