2-е изд. — М.: Альма Матер, 2024. — 263 с. — (Эпохи. Античность. Исследования). В монографии впервые в нашей историко-философской литературе предпринято обобщенно-проблемное изложение античных представлений о человеке на основе выделения и характеристики мифологического, религиозного, натурфилософского и социокультурного типов антропологии. Для преподавателей, студентов и всех...
Springer, 2024. — 290 p. - Discusses the evolution of anthropological ideas from ancient philosophers to the transformative 19th century - Each chapter explores a specific aspect of anthropological thought, providing a structured and in-depth exploration - Profound insights into the contributions of eminent anthropologists, from E.B.Tylor to Michel Foucault & Jacques Derrida...
New edition with new Foreword and Preface bw Eric R. Wolf. — University of California Press, 1999. — 262 p. Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social...
3nd Edition — Routledge, 2024. — 486 p. The updated third edition of this book critically reconsiders the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a lively style, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. The book illustrates how anthropological ideas...
3nd Edition — Routledge, 2024. — 486 p. The updated third edition of this book critically reconsiders the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a lively style, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. The book illustrates how anthropological ideas...
СПб: Издание Н. Тиблена, 1864. — 180 с. Перевод с немецкого перевода под редакцией А. Бекетова. Книга английского биолога Томаса Генри Гексли (1825-1895) «Evidence as to Man's place in Nature» (1863) задолго до выхода книги Дарвина о происхождении человека приводила доказательства эволюции человека и современных обезьян от общего предка. Это была первая книга, посвященная теме...
University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 408 p. The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau as revealed through the correspondence between Franz Boas and the Scottish-born James Teit, who married into an Interior Salish family and community and became fluent in the Nlaka’pamux language....
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 360 p. A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in studies of race science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but most have focused either on Europe or on North America and Australia. In this stirring history, Projit Bihari...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 432 p. When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the...
Berghahn Books, 2023. — 248 p. Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The...
Michigan State University Press, 1993. — 390 p. Scientist, explorer, historian, and Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's name must be included in the pantheon of early nineteenth-century adventurers who were in the vanguard of American expansion into the heart of the continent. While some, individuals like William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, John C. Fremont, and Kit Carson did...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 277 p. — (Dialectics of the Global). — ISBN 9783111191904. Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 277 p. — (Dialectics of the Global). — ISBN 9783111191096. Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which...
Brill, 2016. — xii, 266 p. — (Studies of Religion in Africa 44). Bourdieu in Africa: Exploring the Dynamics of Religious Fields offers a view of religions as social games played by interested actors. Analyzing practices as strategic moves, this critical approach conceptualizes the religious field as relations of exchange and competition between experts and laity, and explores...
Brill, 2015. — xxx, 610 p. — (Afrika-Studiecentrum Series 35). This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant. David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease is...
University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 268 p. A Maverick Boasian explores the often contradictory life of Alexander Goldenweiser (1880–1940), a scholar considered by his contemporaries to be Franz Boas’s most brilliant and most favored student. The story of his life and scholarship is complex and exciting as well as frustrating. Although Goldenweiser came to the United States...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 680 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-21257-4. 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...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 350 p. A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one of America’s least-appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured in her lifetime by differences in intellectual approach and envy, as well as academic politics and the gender realities of her age. This biography offers...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 648 p. Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt’s two-part...
University of California Press, 2023. — 230 p. Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars...
University of California Press, 2023. — 230 p. Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars...
Routledge, 2020. — 241 p. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the social history of anthropology in the United States, examining the circumstances that gave rise to the discipline and illuminating the role of anthropology in the modern world. Thomas C. Patterson considers the shifting social and political-economic conditions in which anthropological knowledge has...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 648 p. Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt’s two-part...
Wits University Press, 2022. — 360 p. Alan G. Morris critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the stories and implicit racial biases of physical anthropology scientists and researchers, and how they influenced perceptions of the peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern. Bones and Bodies is a highly accessible account of...
Prentice Hall, 1981. — 350 p. This book is intended as an anthropological introduction to the Middle East. This goal is inseparable from a second, complementary one, that of indicating the contribution which the study of the Middle East is making to the main currents of anthropology, especially those which relate to the analysis of complex societies. As anthropological...
Routledge, 2015. — 272 p. Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential...
Routledge, 2012. — 304 p. No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 618 p. This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka (1884–1921) is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka, together with Bronisław Malinowski, studied anthropology in London and later at Oxford, then she headed the Yenisei...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 284 p. This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human society was replaced by a more...
Wits University Press, 2016. — 272 p. Dorothea Bleek (1873–1948) devoted her life to completing the ‘bushman researches’ that her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. This research was partly a labour of familial loyalty to Wilhelm, the acclaimed linguist and language scholar of nineteenth-century Germany and later of the Cape Colony, and...
Berghahn Books, 2022. — 758 p. Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists...
Berghahn Books, 2022. — 758 p. Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 348 p. Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. History of Theory and Method in Anthropology...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 348 p. — ISBN-10 1496231309; ISBN-13 978-1496231307. Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
The Hague; Paris: Mouton, 1974. — 404 p. The scientific interests of Soviet ethnologists and anthropologists cover a broad field of topics ranging in time from anthropogenesis and sociogenesis to ethnic processes in modern society and in space embracing the whole ecumene. The publication in English of selected recent works by Soviet authors in these fields from the scientific...
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78374-544-9 (pbk); ISBN: 978-1-78374-546-3 (e-PDF). The idea of etnos came into being over a hundred years ago as a way of understanding the collective identities of people with a common language and shared traditions. In the twentieth century, the concept came to be associated with Soviet state-building, and it...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. — 368 p. This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 430 p. Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives re-examines the poetry and scholarship of three of the foremost figures in the twentieth-century history of U.S.-American anthropology: Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict. While they are widely renowned for their contributions to Franz Boas’s early twentieth-century school of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 408 p. This inaugural volume of The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858–1942). Few of Boas’s intellectual progeny span the range of his disciplinary and public engagements. In his later career, Boas...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. — 324 p. Excluded Ancestors focuses on little-known scholars who contributed significantly to the anthropological work of their time, but whose work has since been marginalized due to categorical boundaries of race, class, gender, citizenship, institutional and disciplinary affiliation, and English-language proficiency. The essays in...
Oxford University Press, 1990. — 272 p. On the night of December 18, 1912, a packed meeting of the Geological Society of London listened to Charles Dawson, a rural lawyer and an amateur geologist, make an exciting announcement: he had found evolution's missing link in an old gravel pit near Piltdown Common. Together with Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the British...
Routledge, 2013. — 262 p. This book argues that the history and character of modern anthropology has been egregiously distorted to the detriment of this intellectual pursuit and academic discipline. The "critique of anthropology" is a product of the momentous and tormented events of the 1960s when students and some of their elders cried, "Trust no one over thirty!" The Marxist,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 464 p. — (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology). Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist’s birth in Minden, Germany,...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. — 229 p. Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality. The writers studied here (an eclectic group of scientists, anthropologists,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 454 p. Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change. Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his...
М.: Академический Проект, 2020. — 621 с. — (Фундаментальный учебник) — ISBN 978-5-8291-3261-3. В предлагаемой читателям книге рассмотрены основные западные антропологические теории XX века. В рамках отечественного обществоведения впервые представлены описание и анализ предметной области антропологии: интеллектуальный контекст формирования и изменения; основные направления и...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 554 p. Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers...
6th Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 396 p. – ISBN 978-1-4875-2498-2. For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how the discipline has evolved from its origins to the present day. The sixth edition of this important text offers substantial updates throughout,...
Berghahn Books, 2010. — 232 p. How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and...
Berghahn Books, 2010. — 232 p. How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2012. — 580 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-4448-0018-8. Что такое «антропология» как исследовательская дисциплина и как специфическая сфера интеллектуальной деятельности? Парадокс ее развития таков, что нет двух стран, в которых ответ на этот вопрос прозвучал бы одинаково. И тем не менее это единая область знания с установившимися границами и...
Granta Books, 2021. — 352 p. In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma in Anthropology. Though their circumstances differed radically, all five were intent on travelling to the furthest corners of the globe and studying remote communities whose lives were a world away from their own. In the wastelands of...
Выходные данные не указаны, 95 с. Поводом для написания статьи послужило выступление автора на междисциплинарной конференции «Общественный человек и человеческое общество (памяти Бориса Федоровича Поршнева)», проведенной в Российском общественно-политическом центре при финансовой поддержке Российского гуманитарного научного фонда и Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. — 280 p. In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science", uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. — 329 p. An in-depth analysis of the Thailand Controversy - anthropologists whose work in Thailand in the 1960s was used by the U.S. in a counterinsurgency campaign - and the American Anthropological Association investigation.
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 420 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 16). The chapters in Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology build a nuanced picture of the relationship between classics and the burgeoning field of anthropology from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 392 p. In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 384 p. Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 282 p. Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 282 p. Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 258 p. Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology are included. Volume 3 features critical and biographical studies of Sir Richard Burton, Frank Hamilton...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 286 p. Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology are included, along with reviews and shorter articles. Volume 2 features telling assessments of the careers...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 364 p. Histories of Anthropology Annual promotes diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology will be included, along with reviews and shorter pieces. This inaugural volume offers insightful looks at the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 312 p. — (Histories of Anthropology Annual 14) The series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing the awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2018. — 262 p. First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence E. Hays’...
Brill, 2020. — 360 p. — (Nuncius Series 4). For nearly two centuries, the racial significance of the human brain has absorbed a huge amount of scientific energy, despite the frequency of shortcomings and disappointing results. This book tries to show and explain the resilience of such a thorny issue. Eighteenth-century Onset Darker Skin and Brain Qualitative and Quantitative...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 309 p. List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Institutionalizing the “Most Recent Science”: Anthropology in the World of German Learning at the Fin de Siècle The Meaning of Race: The Liberal Paradigm in Prewar German Anthropology Nationalism and Mobilization in Wartime Anthropology, 1914–18 “Among Foreign Peoples”: Racial...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 464 p. — (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology). Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first book in a two-part biography, Franz Boas begins with the anthropologist’s birth in Minden, Germany,...
Routledge, 2020. — 212 p. This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski’s diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 376 p. Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such distinctiveness, Richard Werbner argues, was driven by creative difference, travelling theories and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. The expansion of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 354 p. — (Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 10). The Histories of Anthropology Annual presents localized perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. This tenth volume of the series, Local...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 296 p. — (Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 8). Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major...
New York University Press, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-0814798935; ISBN10: 0814798934. The term "Caucasian" is a curious invention of the modern age. Originating in 1795, the word identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be "Caucasian". Bruce Baum explores the history of the term and the category of the "Caucasian race" more...
University of Illinois Press, 2018. — 288 p. After the pioneers, the second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged further afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work remains...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 276 p. This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology. Focusing on Boasians Ashley Montagu, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict, Anthony Hazard highlights the extent to which the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 276 p. This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology. Focusing on Boasians Ashley Montagu, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict, Anthony Hazard highlights the extent to which the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 428 p. This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and other bodily structures of Indigenous Australians became the focus of scientific curiosity about the nature and origins of human diversity from the early years of...
Bodley Head, 2019. — 448 p. The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, many of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about race, sexuality, gender and the nature of human...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 424 p. Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield―brought to English-language readers here for the first time―Vincent...
Westview Press, 2003. — 342 p. Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology traces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-first century. It is a focused examination of how the idea of evolution has continued to provide anthropology with a master principle around which a vast body of data can be organized and synthesized....
Routledge, 2018. — 258 p. This book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present. It introduces readers to the origins, context and continuing relevance of a fascinating and exciting kaleidoscope of ideas that have transformed the humanities and social sciences, and the way we understand ourselves...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 418 p. A New History of Anthropology collects original writings from pre-eminent scholars to create a sophisticated but accessible guide to the development of the field. Re-examines the history of anthropology through the lens of the new globalized world Provides a comprehensive history of the discipline, from its prehistory in the ‘age of exploration’...
University of Arizona Press, 2014. — 240 p. Ruth M. Underhill (1883–1984) was one of the twentieth century’s legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2018. — 454 p. This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological ideas regarding human diversity...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 522 p. The Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African–born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the anthropology of anticolonialism and conflict theory in southern Africa, and one of the...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 280 p. — (Native Peoples of the Americas). In this provocative new book, Margaret M. Bruchac, an Indigenous anthropologist, turns the word savage on its head. Savage Kin explores the nature of the relationships between Indigenous informants, such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca), and George Hunt (Tlingit), and early...
The University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 391 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226700-96-8. In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the “savages at Hyde Park Corner,” an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a “witch-hunt” and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these “living curiosities”: displayed...
Berghahn Books, 2010. — 308 p. — (Methodology and History in Anthropology). Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim...
Berghahn Books, 2018. — 330 p. — (Methodology and History in Anthropology). The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 272 pp. In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on the anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, physicians, and other experts who...
Doubleday, 2019. — 448 p. A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled...
Санкт-Петербург: Просвещение, 1903. — 758 с. Вторая часть рассматривает современные и доисторические человеческие расы. включает в себя разделы о физических различиях человеческого рода и первобытных расах Европы.
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 298 p. 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,...
Stanford University Press, 1989. — 352 p. — (With a New Introduction by Raymond Firth). When it was first published (in 1967, posthumously), Bronislaw Malinowski's diary, covering the period of his fieldwork in 1914-1915 and 1917-1918 in New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands, set off a storm of controversy. Many anthropologists felt that the publication of the diary - which Raymond...
4th Edition — Routledge, 2014. — 170 p. Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon...
2nd Edition — AltaMira Press, 2003. — 304 p. Sydel Silverman presents a long-awaited second edition of this fascinating classic work, originally published in 1981. Eleven distinguished anthropologists offer an insiders' reflection on nine prominent figures who helped shape the discipline. This is one of few books that traces the theoretical development of anthropology through the...
Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1983. — 395 p. Derek Freeman, 1917 - 2001 Derek Freeman was born in 1917 in New Zealand, and from a very young age was interested in anthropology, tantalized by Margaret Mead's sojurns to Samoa. In 1940, Freeman traveled to Samoa and lived among the natives for three years where he taught and studied the culture. It was during this...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. — 280 p. Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Lévi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological...
University of Nebraska Press, 2002. — 448 p. From the 1920s through the end of World War II, American anthropology grew in complexity while its scope became increasingly global and contemporary. Much insightful and innovative work continued to be produced by scholars working with Native American and First Nation communities, but the significant contributions of those conducting...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. — 448 p. For this collection, Stocking has written comments on each of the eight essays included, as well as an introduction providing autobiographical and historiographical context and an afterword reconsidering major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology. The essays themselves...
Free Press, 1991. — 448 p. Stocking examines the portrayal of primitive peoples by Victorian travellers and missionaries. He shows how their attitudes towards the dark-skinned savages corresponded to their view of the proletarian masses produced by the Industrial Revolution. George W. Stocking Jr. (1928–2013) was a historian of social anthropology, focused on anthropology’s own...
2nd updated and revised Edition — Pluto Press, 2013. — 264 p. This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship...
5th Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 304 p. This bestselling overview of the history of anthropological theory spans from antiquity to the twenty-first century, offering an accessible and engaging introduction to the discipline of anthropology. The fifth edition has been revised throughout, with stronger coverage of feminism, gender, and sexuality in anthropology,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 306 p. In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa -- what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda -- the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African "white tribe" haunted him and seemed...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2012. — 208 с.: ил. — (Научное приложение. Вып. CXIV). — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0018-8. Что такое «антропология» как исследовательская дисциплина и как специфическая сфера интеллектуальной деятельности? Парадокс ее развития таков, что нет двух стран, в которых ответ на этот вопрос прозвучал бы одинаково. И тем не менее это единая область знания с...
University of Utah Press, 1999. — 312 p. "Julian Steward and the Great Basin" is a critical assessment of Steward’s work, the factors that influenced him, and his deep effect on American anthropology. Steward (1902–1972) was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology, the idea that societies evolve in adaptation to their human and natural environments. He was also...
4th Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 608 p. This comprehensive anthology offers over 40 readings that are critical to the understanding of anthropological theory and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline. The fourth edition maintains a strong focus on the "four-field" roots of the discipline in North America but has been reorganized with a new...
4th Edition — University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 296 p. In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable, and accessible introduction to anthropological theory from antiquity to the present. A new section on twenty-first-century anthropological theory has been added, with more coverage given to...
Иркутск: Иркутский государственный университет, 1999. — 160 с. В монографии представлен анализ различных направлений русской социально-философской мысли XX века с точки зрения антропологического подхода, показано как в этих направлениях разрешались основные проблемы человеческого бытия, соотношение индивидуального и социального, мировоззренческого и идеологического, рационального...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 244 p. This Jack Goody's book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in response...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. — 512 с.: ил. В книге Марины Могильнер рассматривается уникальный материал о становлении «неклассической» науки о человеке (его типах, расах, телесном строении и коллективных особенностях) во второй половине XIX и первой трети XX столетия. Деятельность Русского антропологического общества, история основания соответствующих кафедр в...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 322 p. — (Studies in American Thought and Culture).
In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, badly damaging her...
Duke University Press Book, 2016. — 489 p.
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the...
Перевод с французского О.В. Кустовой; под научной редакцией А.М. Положенцева. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2010. — 560 с. — (Ars Pura. Французская коллекция). — ISBN: 978-5-93762-073-6. Книга известного французского культуролога и философа Марселя Энаффа посвящена личности, произведениям и идеям выдающегося этнолога, создателя структурной антропологии Клода Леви-Строса -...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2014. — 744 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-05509-6. В основу данной монографии был положен курс лекций, читавшийся автором, доктором исторических наук, профессором, всемирно известным археологом Львом Самуиловичем Клейном в Санкт-Петербургском университете и других учебных заведениях Петербурга, России и мира. Обозначая предмет исследования как историю...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2012. — 208 с.: ил. — (Научное приложение. Вып. CXIV). — ISBN: 978-5-4448-0018-8. Что такое «антропология» как исследовательская дисциплина и как специфическая сфера интеллектуальной деятельности? Парадокс ее развития таков, что нет двух стран, в которых ответ на этот вопрос прозвучал бы одинаково. И тем не менее это единая область знания с...
University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 270 p. When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton’s skull wound up in a collector’s cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the...
University of Chicago Press, 2009. — 279 p. Last August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, leading to more than 1,000 news stories worldwide—despite the fact that nearly everyone knew it was a hoax. Though Bigfoot may not exist, there’s no denying Bigfoot mania.With Bigfoot , Joshua Blu Buhs traces the...
ANU Press, 2011. — 471 p.
In 1948 a collection of scientists, anthropologists and photographers journeyed to northern Australia for a seven-month tour of research and discovery — now regarded as ‘the last of the big expeditions’. The American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land was front-page news at the time, but 60 years later it is virtually unknown. This lapse...
Halle Lectures, 2005. — 408 p. — ISBN: 0226038289, 0226038297.
One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology—British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 256 p. Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history. Alan Barnard has written a clear, detailed overview of anthropological theory that brings out the historical contexts of the great debates, tracing the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. His book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its...
Монография. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. 512 с., ил. ISBN: 978-5-86793-567-2 В книге Марины Могильнер рассматривается уникальный материал о становлении "неклассической" науки о человеке (его типах, расах, телесном строении и коллективных особенностях) во второй половине XIX и первой трети XX столетия. Деятельность Русского антропологического общества, история...
М.: Типо-литографія А. В. Васильева, 1900. - 18 с.
Оттискъ изъ „Русскаго Антропологическаго Журнала 1900 г., № 1.
Дмитрий Николаевич Анучин — известный русский географ, антрополог, этнограф, археолог, музеевед, основоположник научного изучения географии, антропологии и этнографии в МГУ. В 1902 году ввёл в оборот термин «антропосфера».
Монография. Екатеринбург: Изд-во Уральского университета, 2011. - 244 с. В монографии впервые в нашей историко-философской литературе предпринято обобщенно-проблемное изложение античных представлений о человеке на основе выделения и характеристики мифологического, религиозного, натурфилософского и социокультурного типов антропологии. Для преподавателей, студентов и всех...
Переклад з франц. - Київ: Києво-Могилянська академія, 2008. - 259 с.
У новій книжці антрополога Робера Дельєжа (французькою її видано 2006 року) розглянуто основні теоретичні течії антропології (еволюціонізм, французька школа, американський культуралізм, британський функціоналізм, структуралізм, марксистська та динамічна антропологія). Опираючись на багатий джерельний матеріял,...
Учебник для студентов педагогических вузов. М.: Академический Проект; Альма Матер, 2010. – 622 с. — (Фундаментальный учебник) ISBN: 978-5-8291-1076-5 (Академический Проект) ISBN: 978-5-902766-49-0 (Альма Матер) В предлагаемой читателям книге рассмотрены основные западные антропологические теории XX века. В рамках отечественного обществоведения впервые представлены описание и...
Учебник для студентов педагогических вузов. М.: Академический Проект; Альма Матер, 2010. – 622 с. — (Фундаментальный учебник) ISBN: 978-5-8291-1076-5 (Академический Проект) ISBN: 978-5-902766-49-0 (Альма Матер) В предлагаемой читателям книге рассмотрены основные западные антропологические теории XX века. В рамках отечественного обществоведения впервые представлены описание и...
Перевод с французского О.В. Кустовой; под научной редакцией А.М. Положенцева. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2010. — 560 с. — (Ars Pura. Французская коллекция). — ISBN: 978-5-93762-073-6. Книга известного французского культуролога и философа Марселя Энаффа посвящена личности, произведениям и идеям выдающегося этнолога, создателя структурной антропологии Клода Леви-Строса -...
Pluto Press, 2001. — 216 p. — ISBN10 0745313906; ISBN13 9780745313900. This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth...
Allen Lane, 1978. In this book Adam Kuper, one of the most gifted of the younger generation of British social anthropologists, traces the growth of the subject over these fifty years, the development of its theoretical framework and the personalities of the men and women involved. In the final chapters he considers the present and future of the subject, for the moment...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. - 27 р/ Язык: английский. "Возьми палку - Преобразование феминистских теорий в антропологии" Вводная статья Луизы Ламфер в книге Feminist Anthropology. Past, Present, and Future. - Феминистская антропология: прошлое, настоящее и будущее.
/ Цена альтруизма: Джордж Прайс и поиск истоков доброты. — W. W. Norton, New York, London, 2010. — 331 p. : 22 photos На английском языке. Книга о жизни и об исследованиях Джорджа Прайса, о его теории альтруизма и роли альтруизма в эволюции. Джордж Прайс продолжил исследования Дарвина: кто выживает, самый сильный или самый добрый? В рецензиях сказано, что книга заслуживает...
Учебное пособие. Ставрополь, 2008. — 292 с. — ISBN 00000 Антрополого-исторический дискурс стал доминирующим в объединении основных направлений гуманитарных исследований, посвященных изучению человека в исторически разных условиях с позиций философского, исторического, психолого-педагогического, культурно-социального, политического, лингвистического, физиологического и других...
М.: ИФ РАН, 2006. – 215 с. – ISBN 5-9540-0048-4.
Данный труд раскрывает многообразие философских учений, которые связаны с постижением феномена человека. Авторы показывают зарождение философии человека в античной культуре и возникновение философской антропологии в XVIII в. Особое внимание они обращают на философскую антропологию как философское направление, возникшее в начале...
Ответственный редактор П.С. Гуревич. — М.: ИФ РАН, 2008. — 206 с. — ISBN 978-5-9540-0121-1. Монография представляет собой развернутое изложение философских исканий, направленных на постижения человека. В ней раскрыто содержание таких направлений, как синергийная, религиозная, постмодернистская, трансперсональная антропологии. Затронуты актуальные и значимые проблемы — предмет...
Пер. с англ. АЛ. Елфимова; Ст. А. А. Никишенкова. — М. : Вост. лит. , 2003. — 358 с. — ISBN 5-02-018281-8
Издание на русском языке историографической работы, антрополога Э. Э. Эванс-Причарда (1902-1973), посвященной роли ученых XVIII—XX ва (Монтескье, Фергюсон, Конт, Фрэзер, Дюрк-гейм и др. ) в развитии теоретической мысли в социальной антропологии.
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М.: Восточная литература, 2003. — 360 с. — (Этнографическая библиотека). — ISBN 5-02-018281-8. Первое издание на русском языке историографической работы выдающегося британского антрополога Э. Э. Эванс-Причарда (1902-1973), посвященной роли ученых XVIII-XX вв. (Монтескье, Фергюсон, Конт, Фрэзер, Дюркгейм и др) в развитии теоретической мысли в социальной антропологии. В работе...
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