Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-418) and index.
Table of Contents
The ethnographer's magic : fieldwork in British anthropology from Tylor to Malinowski -- The Boas plan for the study of American Indian languages -- Anthropology as Kulturkampf : science and politics in the career of Franz Boas -- Ideas and institutions in American anthropology : thoughts toward a history of the interwar years -- Philanthropoids and vanishing cultures : Rockefeller funding and the end of the museum era in Anglo-American anthropology -- Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski : archetypes from the dreamtime of anthropology -- The ethnographic sensibility of the 1920s and the dualism of the anthropological tradition -- Paradigmatic traditions in the history of anthropology.