"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. 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. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology (Phoenix Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Stocking Jr., George W.

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

For this collection, Stocking has written comments on each of the eight essays included, as well as an introduction providing autobiographical and historiographical context and an afterword reconsidering major themes of the essays in relation to the recent past and present situation of academic anthropology. The essays themselves address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski; anthropology's 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.”

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

History

World

University of Wisconsin Press

Praise for After Tylor. . . 
"This impressively solid, judicious, and authoritative text will surely serve the profession for a long time to come."-Michael Young, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 
"The publication of After Tylor, taken together with Victorian Anthropology, represents a milestone in the historiography of the behavioural sciences."- Robert Ackerman, London Review of Books 
"After Tylor is thus an effort to reconstruct and understand modes of thought which-though hardly discontinuous-were still rather different from our own. In this, it is utterly and completely successful."-Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology 
"This is magnificent scholarship. Furthermore it proves that a discourse intended to complicate received ideas can also be eminently readable."-Michael Herzfeld, American Scientist 
"Formidable as its scope is, this account is also eminently readable. The layering of each character will ensure that it can be read at all levels of anthropological sophistication."-Marilyn Strathern, Times Higher Education Supplement 
"There are many reasons that George Stocking is generally recognized as the leading historian of anthropology. His ability to breathe life into the dead is not the least of them." -Henry Munson, Jr., Religion 
"Few scholarly books of this considerable length deserve to be read from cover to cover, but Stocking's After Tylor is surely one of them."-Tamara Kohn, Metascience 
A sequel to Victorian Anthropology, Stocking's widely acclaimed study of British anthropology and the Darwinian Revolution, After Tylor is the first comprehensive exploration of the intellectual transition that gave rise to modern British social anthropology.

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951

Delimiting Anthropology makes available sixteen essays from the influential career of George W. Stocking, Jr., the world's preeminent historian of anthropology. The essays are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking's own research over four decades. In his introductory comments he places each essay in the context of his entire body of work. The first quartet focuses on the work of Franz Boas and the emergence of "Boasian Culturalism." In the second set of essays Stocking addresses the careers of three British "evolutionaries"—Lord Kames; Sir E. B. Tylor; and Sir James G. Frazer—tracking the development of cultural evolutionary thought from its origins in the Scottish Enlightenment through its early twentieth-century afterglow in Frazer's The Golden Bough. The third group of essays looks at institutions and national traditions, including British ethnography exemplified in the fieldwork manual Notes and Queries; the humanistic Parisian Société d'Ethnographie; the early tension at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe between aspiring local amateur anthropologists and professionals from Eastern universities; and the history of ethnographic museums in the European tradition. In closing, Stocking offers reflections on major tendencies in anthropology from the eighteenth century to the present. "George Stocking is without rival as an historian of modern anthropology. He is trained as an historian, and he knows anthropologists from having lived among them. This collection is indispensable for any one or place concerned with the subject."—Dell Hymes, editor of Reinventing Anthropology

Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections

Stocking, George

George W. Stocking, Jr., has spent a professional lifetime exploring the history of anthropology, and his findings have shaped anthropologists’ understanding of their field for two generations. Through his meticulous research, Stocking has shown how such forces as politics, race, institutional affiliations, and personal relationships have influenced the discipline from its beginnings. In this autobiography, he turns his attention to a subject closer to home but no less challenging. Looking into his own “black box,” he dissects his upbringing, his politics, even his motivations in writing about himself. The result is a book systematically, at times brutally, self-questioning.    An interesting question, Stocking says, is one that arouses just the right amount of anxiety. But that very anxiety may be the ultimate source of Stocking’s remarkable intellectual energy and output. In the first two sections of the book, he traces the intersecting vectors of his professional and personal lives. The book concludes with a coda, “Octogenarian Afterthoughts,” that offers glimpses of his life after retirement, when advancing age, cancer, and depression changed the tenor of his reflections about both his life and his work.     This book is the twelfth and final volume of the influential History of Anthropology series.

Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction (Volume 12) (History of Anthropology)

Biographies & Memoirs

Cartels or Competition? the Economics of International Controls by Business and Government

International Cartels Survey Of The Twentieth Century Fund. With The Report And Recommendations Of The Committee On Cartels And Monopoly.

Business & Money

Watkins, Myron W

Economics

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