This introductory text examines the formation, history, function, and most significant results of cultural anthropology. Special topics include the great ocean voyages of the early explorers; theories of progress and adaptation; the development of anthropology through the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; the study of religion, taboo, and myth; and the classic works of Franz Boas, Alfred L. Kroeber, Robert Lowe, and Bronislaw Malinowski. Also considered is the influence of anthropological methods and research on psychoanalysis, and how anthropology wrought a revolution in historical research.
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Ida Magli is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Rome. She is a contributor to the weekly L'Espresso and was a columnist for the daily La Repubblica. She lives in Rome, Italy.
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The flowering of human culture,
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This review is from: Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction (Paperback)
Ida Magli, Italy's most original cultural anthropologist, examines the growth of reflection concerning cultures. Moving from a historical perspective frequently lacking in texts written by other anthropologists and sociologists, her provocative observations are both clearly expressed and steeped in the flavor of philosophy. Magli's exploration of anthropology's discovery of women will be continued in later works (in particular, History of Christian Women, soon to be published by McFarland), as will her clarification of the rapport between anthropology and psychoanalysis.
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