Visionary Observers: Anthropological Inquiry and Education

Jill B. R. Cherneff; Eve Hochwald

ISBN 10: 080326464X / ISBN 13: 9780803264649

Editore: University of Nebraska Press, 2006

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University of Nebraska Press, Published 2006. Paperback, xxiii, 261 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated with ten black-and-white photographs. In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers in red, featuring a photographic image of crossed eyeglasses with title lettering in white, show light bumping to edges with light overall scuffing. Binding tight with no spine crease. Title page bears a personalized inscription signed by both editors by first names only: "To Laurie / With love / Jill and Eve," dated April 2007. Pages clean and unmarked. Part of the "Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology" series, this volume examines the careers and contributions of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who shaped debates on race, education, and public policy: Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Gene Weltfish, Hortense Powdermaker, Jules Henry, Ruth Landes, Solon Kimball, and Eleanor Leacock. Each chapter, written by a specialist, assesses a figure's significance to the anthropology of education. Illustrated with ten archival black-and-white photographs. Contents: Foreword (Sydel Silverman); Introduction (Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald); Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual (Regna Darnell); Ruth Benedict: Relativist and Universalist (Virginia Heyer Young); A Century of Margaret Mead (Ray McDermott); Education and Democracy in the Anthropology of Gene Weltfish (Juliet Niehaus); The Social Anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker (Jill B.R. Cherneff); Culture and Race in the Classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American Education (Richard Handler); Human Activity and a Theory of Schooling: An Assessment of Solon Kimball's Anthropology of Education (Alexander Moore); They Are All Our Children: Eleanor Leacock and the Anthropology of Education (Eve Hochwald); References; Contributors; Index.

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• Titolo: Visionary Observers: Anthropological Inquiry and Education
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080326464X
• ISBN 13: 9780803264649
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 14 once
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Riassunto

Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. Included are Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology; Ruth Benedict, who analyzed modern societies during and after World War II; Margaret Mead, anthropology's most recognized public educator; Gene Weltfish, whose &;pragmatic anthropology&; positioned education at the core of culture; Hortense Powdermaker, whose fieldwork embraced Black America, Hollywood, and the Pacific; Solon Kimball, who studied the impact of desegregation; Ruth Landes, who adopted a cultural approach to educating teachers; Jules Henry, who analyzed the institutional consequences of imposing middle-class culture; and Eleanor Leacock, who pioneered &;advocacy anthropology.&;

 

The questions they asked&;about culture and human behavior, democracy and inequality, and systemic function and disjunction&;and the dilemmas they faced as citizen-scientists are recurrent ones. The topics they addressed illustrate how the lens of American anthropology has long been focused on domestic issues. Through its emphasis on anthropologists as practitioners as well as theorists, this anthology adds a new dimension to the history and development of anthropology in the United States.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jill B. R. Cherneff is a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California at Los Angeles. Eve Hochwald is the principal of Action Research, an educational consulting practice. Sydel Silverman is professor emerita at City University of New York and former president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The contributors to this volume include Jill B. R. Cherneff, Regna Darnell, Richard Handler, Eve Hochwald, Ray McDermott, Alexander Moore, Juliet Niehaus, and Virginia Young.