Anthropology in public
By: [Richard G. Fox, editor].
Contributors: Fox, Richard Gabriel, 1939-; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Series: Current anthropology -- v. 37
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Tax, Sol, -- 1907-; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Ethnology
Notes: On cover: Current anthropology, volume 37, supplement, February 1996.

"Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research"--Cover.

"This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Sol Tax, the founder and first editor of Current anthropology"--Editorial.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editorial: Going public with anthropology / Richard G. Fox; title: Power, objects, and a voice for anthropology / Jonathan Haas; title: Applied and action anthropology: ideological and conceptual aspects / John W. Bennett; title: Allegories of sacred imperfection: magic, hermeneutics, and passion in the satanic / Phina Werbner; title: Filming through the mists of time: Celtic constructions and the documentary / Angela Piccini; title: Discussion and criticism. On proprietary rights in archaeology: some unresolved issues / Philip L. Kohl ... [et al.]; title: Reports. CA and Soviet censorship: an interrupted conversation with my father / Marianna Tax Choldin; title: Community, action, and continuity: a narrative vita of Sol Tax / Sam Stanley; title: Ayodhya, archaeology, and identity / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock; title: Books. The eternal triangle: race class, and IQ (Herrnstein and Murray's the Bell curve) / Alexander Alland, Jr. ... [et al.]; title: Diagnosing American anthropology (Forman's Diagnosing America) / Richard Jenkins; title: Photographic politics (Brown's Contesting images, Lutz and Collins's Reading National Geographic) / Robert A. Fernea.