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- Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980: A Generation Reflects
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- 2012
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual practitioners. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) called upon a number of its leaders to give accounts of their particular innovations in the discipline. This volume is the result of the AAA venture—a set of primary documents on the history of American anthropology at a critical juncture.
In preparing the volume, the editors endeavored to maintain the feeling of “oral history” within the chapters and to preserve the individual voices of the contributors. There are many books on the history of anthropology, but few that include personal essays from such a broad swath of different perspectives. The passing of time will make this volume increasingly valuable in understanding the development of American anthropology from a small discipline to the profession of over ten thousand practitioners.
Table of Contents
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- 4. Anthropology and Education and Me
- pp. 34-42
- 6. Age Is More Than a Number
- pp. 50-57
- 8. America Had No Patrimony
- pp. 65-73
- 11. Eliot Chapple’s Long and Lonely Road
- pp. 94-103
- 15. What Are You Doing Here?
- pp. 145-153
- 16. Linguistic Anthropology
- pp. 154-163
- 18. A Bottom- Up View of Big Anthropology
- pp. 172-184
- 19. My People in Washington
- pp. 185-189
- Part III: Peace Studies
- 20. Legitimating Peace Studies
- pp. 193-198
- 23. Looking Back, and Forward
- pp. 221-223
- References
- pp. 231-269
- Contributors
- pp. 271-283
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817385897
Related ISBN(s)
9780817356880
MARC Record
OCLC
772845320
Pages
311
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-08
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012