The Routledge Dictionary of AnthropologistsThis detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students of anthropology. |
Contents
The nineteenth century and the evolutionists | 1 |
Field workers and early informants | 28 |
The diffusionist schools | 40 |
American anthropology | 55 |
The French tradition and the Institut dethnologie | 85 |
The American tradition from the end of the First World War to the 1950s | 101 |
British functionalist anthropology | 134 |
Mausss students and the Institut dethnologie in the interwar years | 171 |
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