American anthropology & company : historical explorations / Stephen O. Murray.

Author/creator Murray, Stephen O.
Format Book
PublicationLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Descriptionxxiv, 370 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Anthropology--United States. --History.
Anthropological linguistics--United States. --History.
Sociology--United States. --History.

Variant title American anthropology and company
SeriesCritical studies in the history of anthropology
Critical studies in the history of anthropology. ^A561801
Contents Anthropology and some of its companions. Introduction : before the Boasians ; Historical inferences from ethnohistorical data : Boasian views ; The manufacture of linguistic structure ; Margaret Mead and the professional unpopularity of popularizers ; American anthropologists discover peasants ; The non-eclipse of Americanist anthropology during the 1930s and 1940s ; The pre-Freudian Georges Devereux, the post-Freudian Alfred Kroeber, and Mohave sexuality ; University of California, Berkeley, anthropology during the 1950s ; American anthropologists looking through Taiwan to see "traditional" China, 1950-1990 / with Keelung Hong -- Sociology's increasingly uneasy relations with anthropology. W.I. Thomas, behaviorist ethnologist ; The postmaturity of sociolinguistics : Edward Sapir and personality studies in the Chicago Department of Sociology ; The reception of anthropological work in American sociology, 1921-1951 ; The rights of research assistants and the rhetoric of political suppression : Morton Grodzins and the University of California Japanese-American evacuation and resettlement study ; Resistance to sociology at Berkeley ; Does editing core anthropology and sociology journals increase citations to the editor? ; Conclusion : doing history of anthropology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-360) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2012050027
ISBN9780803243958 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0803243952 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40022472173