Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics-race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology.

Race, Culture & Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology

Politics & Social Sciences

Stocking, George W.

Social Sciences

Free Press

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 tradition.

Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility (History of Anthropology)

Anthropology

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

George Stocking has been widely recognized as the premier historian of anthropology ever since the publication of his first volume of essays, Race, Culture, and Evolution, in 1968. As editor of several publications, including the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series, he has led the movement to establish the history of anthropology as a recognized research specialization. In addition to the study Victorian Anthropology, his work includes numerous essays covering a wide range of anthropological topics. The eight essays collected in The Ethnographer's Magic consider the emergence of anthropology since the late nineteenth century as an academic discipline grounded in systematic fieldwork. Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript materials, the essays focus primarily on Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski, the leading figures in the American and the British academic fieldwork traditions. According to George Marcus of Rice University, the essays "represent the most informative and insightful writings on Malinowski and Boas and their legacies that are yet available." Beyond their biographical material, the essays here touch upon major themes in the history of anthropology: its powerfully mythic aspect and persistent strain of romantic primitivism; the contradictions of its relationship to the larger sociopolitical sphere; its problematic integration of a variety of natural scientific and humanistic inquiries; and the tension between its scientific aspirations and its subjectively acquired data. To provide an overview against which to read the other essays, Stocking has also included a sketch of the history of anthropology from the ancient Greeks to the present. For this collection, Stocking has written prefatory commentaries for each of the essays, as well as two more extended contextualizing pieces. An introductory essay ("Retrospective Prescriptive Reflections") places the volume in autobiographical and historiographical context; the Afterword ("Postscriptive Prospective Reflections") reconsiders major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology.

The Ethnographer's Magic: And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology

After Tylor will take pride of place among histories of British social anthropology. Its scope, its accessibility, and its relevance to the history of anthropology as a whole should bring it many readers. Stocking is attentive to institutional circumstances and developments not only in Great Britain, but also in the United States and Australia and elsewhere. He brings into view as well the life circumstances and personal connections of the actors. Almost anyone, perhaps everyone, will learn something from this book.Dell Hymes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville Original, comprehensive, and eminently readable. George Stocking is the leading authority on the history of both American and British anthropology during this period. Here he contributes importantly to the unravelling and and unfolding story of the relationships among evolutionary, diffusionist, and functional anthropology and anthropologists, arguing that there is considerable continuity from Tylor-the-evolutionist to Radcliffe-Brown-the-structural-functionalist. But he also argues that the story is more complex and open-ended. He reintroduces figures outside the canon, such as those who contributed to the making of paradigms in the study of kinship and religion.Joan Vincent, Columbia University

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951

This is a comprehensive exploration of the intellectual transition that gave rise to modern British social anthropology. The author emphasizes the interplay of ethnographic data and anthropological theory, offering a detailed account of the lives and works of a series of influential figures, both well remembered and lesser known, against a background of overseas colonial concerns and domestic intellecual ferment.

After Taylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951

Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Middle East Oil; A Study in Political and Economic Controversy

Business & Money

Univ of Illinois Pr

Contains the factual findings of an extended survey of international cartels made by a special research staff of the Fund. It is a "case book" on international cartels: an account of the origins & operations of cartel arrangements in eight fields in which they have played an important role. These include: sugar, rubber, nitrogen, iron & steel, aluminum, magnesium, incandescent electric lamps, & chemicals.

Cartels in Action, Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy

International

William S. Hein & Co.

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