"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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George W. Stocking, Jr., is Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago.
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traditional racial assumptions, racial mental differences, anthropological culture concept, polygenist thinking, evolutionary ethnology, modern anthropological concept, racial process, behavioral determinism, anthropological activity, anthropological profession, social evolutionism, racial heredity, racial thought, alternating sounds, gazette nationale, race formation, anthropological meaning, ethnological theory, physical anthropology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Franz Boas, New York, Research Council, United States, Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Social Darwinism, American Anthropologist, British Association, Bureau of Ethnology, John Wesley Powell, Madison Grant, Paul Broca, American Indian, American Museum, Daniel Brinton, Galton Society, Matthew Arnold, Professor Levenson, World War, Noble Savage, Stanley Hall, University of Chicago, American Anthropological Association, British Columbia New!
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traditional racial assumptions, racial mental differences, anthropological culture concept, polygenist thinking, evolutionary ethnology, modern anthropological concept, racial process, behavioral determinism, anthropological activity, anthropological profession, social evolutionism, racial heredity, racial thought, alternating sounds, gazette nationale, race formation, anthropological meaning, ethnological theory, physical anthropology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Franz Boas, New York, Research Council, United States, Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Social Darwinism, American Anthropologist, British Association, Bureau of Ethnology, John Wesley Powell, Madison Grant, Paul Broca, American Indian, American Museum, Daniel Brinton, Galton Society, Matthew Arnold, Professor Levenson, World War, Noble Savage, Stanley Hall, University of Chicago, American Anthropological Association, British Columbia New!
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