Romantic Motives
Essays on Anthropological Sensibility
Published on 15. February 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-299-12364-2 (ISBN)
Description
Tracking the Romantic strains in the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Levi-Strauss and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
16ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-12364-2 (9780299123642)
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George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the author of After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951; Victorian Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; and The Ethnographer's Magic. In 1993, he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.