Research Catalog

Title

American anthropology, 1921-1945 : papers from the American anthropologist / edited and with an introduction by George W. Stocking, Jr.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]

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Details

Additional Authors

Stocking, George W., Jr. (George Ward), 1928-2013

Description

x, 543 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

• American anthropologist
• Selected papers from the American anthropologist, 1921-1945.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Anthropology
• Indians
• Anthropology > United States > History > 20th century
• Anthropologists' writings, American
• American Indian or Alaska Native

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published as: Selected papers from the American anthropologist, 1921-1945. Washington, D.C. : American Anthropological Association, c1976.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Thoughts Toward a History of the Interwar Years / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- American Culture and the Northwest Coast / A. L. Kroeber -- Review of A. R. Brown, the Andaman Islanders / Robert H. Lowie -- Diffusion as a Criterion of Age / Wilson D. Wallis -- Miwok Lineages and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California / Edward Winslow Gifford -- The Origin of the Skidi Pawnee Sacrifice to the Morning Star / Ralph Linton -- Review of Franz Boas, Primitive Art / A. L. Kroeber -- Review of Roland B. Dixon, The Building of Cultures / Leslie Spier -- Problems Arising from the Cultural Position of the Havasupai / Leslie Spier -- Review of Robert Redfield, Tepoztlan / A. L. Kroeber -- Configurations of Culture in North America / Ruth Benedict -- The Science of Culture / George Peter Murdock -- More Comprehensive Field Methods / Margaret Mead -- Culture Changes in Yucatan / Robert Redfield -- Some Empirical Aspects of Northern Salteaux Religion / A. I. Hallowell -- Kinship Terminologies in California / A. R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Kinship and History / A. L. Kroeber -- Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation / Robert Redfield, Ralph Linton and Melville J. Herskovits -- Historical Changes in the Choctaw Kinship System / Fred Eggan -- Review of Fred Eggan (ed.), Social Organization of North American Tribes / Julian H. Steward -- The Plains Culture Area in the Light of Archaeology / W. D. Strong -- An Outline of the Problem of Man's Antiquity in North America / Edgar B. Howard -- The Comparative Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan / B. L. Whorf -- Internal Linguistic Evidence Suggestive of the Northern Origin of the Navaho / Edward Sapir -- On Being Unhistorical / C. F. Voegelin -- A Method for Phonetic Accuracy and Speed / Morris Swadesh -- Blood Group Determinations of Prehistoric American Indians / Leland C. Wyman and William C. Boyd -- Fossil Man and the Origin of Races / W. W. Howells -- Review of Robert H. Lowie, The Crow Indians / Clark Wissler -- The Dual Organizations of the Ramko'Kamekra (Canella) of Northern Brazil / Curt Nimuendaju and Robert H. Lowie -- Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans / Julian H. Steward -- A Problem in Kinship Terminology / Leslie A. White -- Review of Abram Kardiner, The Individual and His Society / Scudder Mekeel -- Some Comments on the Study of Cultural Contact / Melville J. Herskovits -- Acquired Drives in Culture Contact / John Gillin -- Covert Culture and Administrative Problems / Clyde Kluckhohn -- On the Concept of Culture and Some Cultural Fallacies / David Bidney -- Socialization, Personality, and the Structure of Pueblo Society (with Particular Reference to Hopi and Zuni) / Esther S. Goldfrank -- American Anthropological Association Resolution on Racial Theories -- Applied Anthropology and its Relationship to Anthropology / John F. Embree.

ISBN

0803292961

OCLC

• 964580465
• SCSB-13232708

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library