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Stephen O. Murray - American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations - 9780803243958 - V9780803243958
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American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations

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Description for American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations Hardback. Moves toward an examination of the institutions, theories, and social networks of scholars as never before, maintaining a healthy scepticism toward anthropologists' views of their own methods and theories Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 figures, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.

In American Anthropology and Company, linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murray explores the connections between anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and history, in broad-ranging essays on the history of anthropology and allied disciplines. On subjects ranging from Native American linguistics to the pitfalls of American, Latin American, and East Asian fieldwork, among other topics, American Anthropology and Company presents the views of a historian of anthropology interested in the theoretical and institutional connections between disciplines that have always been in conversation with anthropology. Recurring characters include Edward Sapir, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Redfield, W. I. and Dorothy Thomas, and William Ogburn.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803243958
SKU
V9780803243958
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About Stephen O. Murray
Stephen O. Murray is the director of El Instituto Obregón in San Francisco. He is the coauthor of Looking through Taiwan: American Anthropologists’ Collusions with Ethnic Domination (Nebraska, 2005) and Boy Wives and Female Husbands, and the author of American Sociolinguistics; Angkor Life; Homosexualities; and other books.

Reviews for American Anthropology and Company: Historical Explorations
"[American Anthropology and Company] is a solid contribution to the history of American anthropology with a salutary approach to interdisciplinarity."—Jeremy MacClancy, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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