Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965 / John S. Gilkeson.
2010
E 184 .A1 G47 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965 / John S. Gilkeson.
Author
Gilkeson, John S., 1948-
ISBN
9780521766722 (hardback)
0521766729 (hardback)
0521766729 (hardback)
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
E 184 .A1 G47 2010
Alternate Call Number
71.07
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800973
Summary
"This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a "complex whole" far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's "the best which has been thought and said," so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Culture in the American grain
2. Social class in the ethnography of the American scene
3. The psychology of culture and the American character
4. The drift of American values
5. America as a civilization.
1. Culture in the American grain
2. Social class in the ethnography of the American scene
3. The psychology of culture and the American character
4. The drift of American values
5. America as a civilization.