American Anthropology, 1888-1920: Papers from the American Anthropologist
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The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper into the roots and significance of ritual, myth, language, social organization, and the physical make-up and prehistory of Native Americans.
The fifty-five selections in this volume represent the interests of and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. The articles in their entirety showcase the state of the subfields of anthropology--archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology--as they were imagined and practiced at the dawn of the twentieth century. Examples of important ethnographic accounts and interpretive debates are also included. Introducing this collection is a historical overview of the beginnings of American anthropology by A. Irving Hallowell, a former president of the AAA.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803280084
ISBN13:9780803280083
Release Date:November 2002
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:850 Pages
Weight:2.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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