Histories of anthropology / Gabriella D'Agostino, Vincenzo Matera, editors.
D'Agostino, Gabriella, editor.; Matera, Vincenzo, editor.
2023
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Title
Histories of anthropology / Gabriella D'Agostino, Vincenzo Matera, editors.
Author
D'Agostino, Gabriella, editor.
ISBN
9783031212581
3031212584
3031212576
9783031212574
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21258-1
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
Language
English
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1 online resource (xvii, 676 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-21258-1 doi
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GN17
Dewey Decimal Classification
301.09
Summary
"The book offers a fresh analysis of the disciplines unfolding in different nation states by tracing the historical trajectories of lesser known anthropological traditions in terms of theoretical and methodological practices." Soumendra Patnaik, Professor of Anthropology, University of Delhi This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and academies in different locations, how the anthropological approach has been modelled and adapted according to specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural features of different areas, and which schools emerge as the most consolidated today. Each chapter presents a cultural history of one of the historical-cultural and geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight the local contributions to the discipline, the influences that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also the ways in which the peripheries have learned from the centres in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise recognisable disciplinary lines. Gabriella DAgostino is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Palermo University, Department of Cultures and Societies, Italy. She is author of the book Sous le traces. Anthropologie et contemporanit (ditions Ptra 2018), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo. Vincenzo Matera is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Milan, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, Italy. He is also a professor at USI (Universit della Svizzera Italiana). He is co-editor of Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
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Includes index.
Chapter 7: From the Regime Ethnologists to the Democratic Generation: Histories of Portuguese Anthropology
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Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: For a History of Anthropology in the Plural
Past Reasons, Present Paths
Towards World Anthropologies
References
Chapter 2: People and Ideas from Elsewhere: Notes on Social Anthropology in the UK
Introduction
Dialogues from Elsewhere: British Social Anthropology
North Atlantic Dialogues
Post-Colonial Dialogues
Dialogues Across the Channel
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: French Anthropology, Ethnology of France and the Contemporary Turn
Introduction
Contemporary French Anthropology

The Institutional Framework: Academic Weakness and Public Resonance
Museum Revolutions: From the Ethnological to the Aesthetic
Ambivalent Relationship to Other Social Sciences: Contiguity and Fractures
Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnography
Theory After the Demise of Grand Narratives
Ethnology of France and in France
From Folklore to an Ethnology of the Present
The Search for the Symbolic and the Primacy of the Subject
Between Holism and Particularism
Popular, Bourgeois and Urban Universes
New Studies on Material Culture
Gender and Generations

The Return of Ritual
Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: From Herder to Strecker: Birth and Developments of the Anthropological Notion of Culture in Germany
The Civilisation and Culture Juxtaposition
The Herderian Concept of Culture
The Relativism Issue and the Hermeneutic Approach
Linguistic Studies
Folklore Studies and Pre-evolutionism
The Academic Institutionalisation and Franz Boas
The Culture-History School
The Cultural Morphology School
The Nazi Break and the Difficult Reconstruction
The Post-reunification Renaissance

The International Influence of German Anthropology
References
Chapter 5: Cultural Anthropology in Italy in the Twentieth Century
Linguistic Invisibility
Historical Background
From the 1970s Until Today: Institutional Shifts
Antonio Gramsci, Ernesto de Martino and the Popular Culture Paradigm
The Crisis of Demology
Towards the 2000s
Conclusion: Today's Issues
References
Chapter 6: Chronology of a Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology in Spain
To Whom Do We Entrust the History of Anthropology?

In Search of the Origin: Protohistory of the "Spanish" Anthropology
Chronology of Anthropology in Spain
Museums, Folklore, Associations, Monarchies, Republics and Dictatorships
1960-1980: Towards the Academic Institutionalisation of Anthropology: From the Study of "The Primitive Other" to the Study of the "Folkloric Us"
Three Decades for Anthropology in Spain: The Founding Period, Local Perspectives, Associations, Congresses, Journals and Progressive Specialisation(s) (1980-2010)
The Way Forward: The Necessary Professionalisation of Anthropology in Spain
References

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