Critics against culture
Subtitle: anthropological observers of mass society
By: Richard Handler.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Ethnology -- History.; Anthropologists' writings.
Description: "Critics against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society - a collection of essays on the history of anthropology focused on Benedict, Boas, Sapir, and modernist thought by one of American anthropology's leading scholars - explores the roots of anthropology's early involvement with the study of American society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Critics, teachers, observers; title: Individualism inside out : Tocqueville's Democracy in  America; title: The dainty and the hungry man : literature and anthropology in the work of Edward Sapir; title: Anti-romantic romanticism : Sapir's critique of American individualism; title: Vigorous male and aspiring female : poetry, personality, and culture in Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict; title: Ruth Benedict and the modernist sensibility; title: American culture in the world : Margaret Mead's And keep your powder dry; title: Critics against culture : Jules Henry, Richard Hoggart, and the tragicomedy of mass society; title: Raymond Williams, George Stocking, and fin-de-siecle U.S. anthropology.