Stocking george w 1928 (8 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 867-882 pages with cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 68, number 4 complete issue. First edition. It has been argued that Franz Boas contributed little to the emergence of the culture concept in anthropology and in fact hindered its growth. In the context of an earlier re-evaluation of the role of E. B. Tylor, it is argued here that in the work of Boas the concept was in fact provided with much of the basis of its modern anthropological meaning. In developing his argument against racial mental differences, Boas proceeded by showing that the behavior of all men, regardless of race or cultural stage, was determined by a traditional body of habitual behavior patterns passed on through what we would now call enculturative processes and buttressed by ethically tainted secondary rationalizations. The behavioral significance of the older humanist-evolutionist idea of culture was thus inverted, and the basis laid for the notion of culture as a primary determinant of behavior. Condition: Edge wear, light soiling, spine sunned else very good.…

, Stocking, George W., 1928-. Volksgeist as method and ethic. Essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition. Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, viii, 349pp., PAPERBACK, very good. Collection of essays on Franz Boas and German anthropology, Humboldt, Volksgeist, Virchow and race theories, ethnography and the American Indian, Alfred Kroeber, German archeology in Asia Minor. 9780299145545 ISBN 0299145549. …

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; vii, 286 p. : ill. Subjects; Anthropology Philosophy. Anthropology History. Romanticism. Anthropology Philosophy Addresses, essays, lectures. Anthropology History Addresses, essays, lectures. Romanticism Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; vii, 286 p. : ill. Subjects; Anthropology Philosophy. Anthropology History. Romanticism. Anthropology Philosophy Addresses, essays, lectures. Anthropology History Addresses, essays, lectures. Romanticism Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…

2nd edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 349 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition -- The study of geography / Franz Boas -- Franz Boas and the Humboldtian tradition : from Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an anthropoligical concept of culture / Matti Bunzl -- From Virchow to Fischer : physical anthropology and "modern race theories" in Wilhelmine Germany / Benoit Massin -- German culture and German science in the Bildung of Franz Boas / Julia E. Liss -- The ethnographhic object and the object of ethnologoy in the early career of Franz Boas / Ira Jacknis -- "The culture as it appears to the Indian himself" : Boas, George Hunt, and the methods of ethnography / Judith Berman -- "The little history of pitiful events" : the epistemological and moral contexts of Kroeber's Calilfornian ethnologooy / Thomas Buckley -- Orientalism as Kulturpolitik : German archeology and cultural imperialism in Asia Minor / Suzanne Marchand. Subjects; SOCIAL SCIENCE Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology General. Anthropology. Anthropology Philosophy. Anthropology Germany History.Anthropology Germany. Anthropology United States History. Anthropology United States. Anthropology, Cultural history. 1 Kg.…

2nd edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 349 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition -- The study of geography / Franz Boas -- Franz Boas and the Humboldtian tradition : from Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an anthropoligical concept of culture / Matti Bunzl -- From Virchow to Fischer : physical anthropology and "modern race theories" in Wilhelmine Germany / Benoit Massin -- German culture and German science in the Bildung of Franz Boas / Julia E. Liss -- The ethnographhic object and the object of ethnologoy in the early career of Franz Boas / Ira Jacknis -- "The culture as it appears to the Indian himself" : Boas, George Hunt, and the methods of ethnography / Judith Berman -- "The little history of pitiful events" : the epistemological and moral contexts of Kroeber's Calilfornian ethnologooy / Thomas Buckley -- Orientalism as Kulturpolitik : German archeology and cultural imperialism in Asia Minor / Suzanne Marchand. Subjects; SOCIAL SCIENCE Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology General. Anthropology. Anthropology Philosophy. Anthropology Germany History.Anthropology Germany. Anthropology United States History. Anthropology United States. Anthropology, Cultural history. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Subjects; Ethnology Great Britain History 19th century. Social evolution History. Anthropology Great Britain History 19th century. Social evolution Great Britain History 19th century. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Subjects; Ethnology Great Britain History 19th century. Social evolution History. Anthropology Great Britain History 19th century. Social evolution Great Britain History 19th century. 1 Kg. …