Readings in the history of anthropology.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Ethnology -- History
Notes: Bibliography: p. 440-473.
Table of contents: title: The nature of anthropology. Maidu creation myth (from Maidu texts) / Roland Dixon -- The Libyan tribes (from The Histories) / Herodotus -- Sociology (from On the Nature of the Universe) / Lucretius -- The Bedouins (from The Muqaddimah) /  Ibn Khaldiin -- The Renaissance foundations of anthropology / John Howland Rowe -- Voyagers and philosophers. The Northern Indians (from A Journey to the Northern Ocean) / Samuel Hearne -- The Aztecs (from The Conquest of New Spain) / Bernal DIaz -- The Guanches (from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions...) / Alexander von Humboldt -- The Aborigines (from Notes on the State of Virginia) / Thomas Jefferson -- On Cannibals (from Essays) / Michel de Montaigne -- The American Aborigines (from The History of America) / William Robertson -- The Origin of language and Society (from On the Origin and Progress of Language) / James Burnet (Lord Monboddo) -- Of laws in relation to the nature of the climate (from the Spirit of the Laws) / Baron de Montesquieu -- Professionalization of anthropology. Instructions for philology (from Instructions for Research Relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America) / George Gibbs -- The origin of the mound builders (From Archaeology of the United States) / Samuel Haven -- American languages and why we should study them / Daniel G. Brinton -- American aspects of Anthropology / Edward B. Tylor -- Man’s place in nature / W J [sic] McGee -- Exposing the Taénsa Hoax (from Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico) / John Swanton -- The history of anthropology / Franz Boas -- On Semitic religion (rrom The Religion of the Semites) / William Robertson-Smith -- Empathy and antipathy in the heart of darkness / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- History from within the discipline. On studying the history of anthropology / Dell Hymes -- The history of anthropology as an anthropological problem / A. Irving Hallowell -- A history of the personality of anthropology / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Anthropological controversies (from History of Anthropology) / Alfred Haddon -- Man and culture : an essay in changing anthropological interpretation / Fred W. Voget -- Retrospect and prospect in history (from Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) / Margaret Hodgen -- Brixham Cave and the antiquity of man / Jacob Gruber -- Some problems in the understanding of Nineteenth Century cultural evolutionism / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- Social anthropology at Cambridge since 1900 / Meyer Fortes.