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George W. Stocking
This title contains 16 essays by George W. Stocking Jr. They are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking’s own research over four decades. He focuses on…
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History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats a theme of major importance in both the history and current practice of anthropological…
This volume is likely to prove indispensable to historians of anthropology in general and of British anthropology in particular. There are a wide range of historical skills on display, from…
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This volume attempts a critical historical consideration of the varying colonial situations in which (and from which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology has been produced. The essays cover regions from…
Franz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and…
Basing Point Pricing and Regional Development: A Case Study of the Iron and Steel Industry
This work deals with the history of anthropology, setting out to define the historiographer as a composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters. The…
Tracking the Romantic strains in the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Levi-Strauss and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the…
George W. Stocking, Jr., has spent a professional lifetime exploring the history of anthropology, and his findings have shaped anthropologists’ understanding of their field for two generations. In this autobiography…
This impressively solid, judicious, and authoritative text will surely serve the profession for a long time to come. –Michael Young, Journal of theHistory of the Behavioral Sciences
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 ……
George W Stocking, Jr.,Myron W Watkins
International Cartels Survey Of The Twentieth Century Fund. With The Report And Recommendations Of The Committee On Cartels And Monopoly.
Contributing Authors Are M. A. Adelman, Joe S. Bain, George J. Stigler, And Many Others.
American Anthropological Association
The 39 selections in this volume represent the increasingly diverse areas of research and range of lasting accomplishments in American anthropology during the interwar period through World War II.
George W Wickersham
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
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