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History of Anthropology in Historical Perspective
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The history of anthropology has a long-established history within the discipline as mentioned in this paper and every major graduate program requires of its students a course in the history, sometimes combined with the theory, of anthropology.Abstract:
History of anthropology has a long-established history within the discipline. Virtu ally every major graduate program requires of its students a course in the history, sometimes combined with the theory, of anthropology. It is not obvious, however, that this has caused history of anthropology to fill a significant or integral role in the teaching and practice of the discipline. Indeed, the opposite has traditionally been true. The required course is frequently taught by the eldest member of the department, who is presumably qualified to teach the history because he has lived through more of it than anyone else. At best such a course provides the fledgling anthropologist with a collection of anecdotes, later to prove useful in socializing his own students within the profession. At worst such a course convinces the student that there is no intelligent reason to consider research done more than a decade previously.read more
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The Erasure of the Middle Ages from Anthropology's Intellectual Genealogy
TL;DR: The authors explores the curious absence of the Middle Ages from the history of anthropological thought and outlines the necessity of reintegrating the Middle ages in anthropology's intellectual genealogy for enriching our understanding of pre-professional anthropology, but also for constructing a more holistic and inclusive understanding of the anthropological project.
Rethinking Recognition: Freedom, Self-Definition, and Principles for Practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that self-definition should be an important guiding value for the politics of recognition and identify three principles essential to such a politics: selfdefinition, responsiveness, and internal contestation.
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Renegades or liberals? Recent reflections on the Boasian legacies in American anthropology:
TL;DR: In this article, King provides a sweeping account of the work of famed anthropologist Franz Boas and the circle of maverick scholars that formed around him during the first half of the 20th century.
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Voicing the Ancestors: Readings for the Present from Anthropology's Past
TL;DR: Voicing the Ancestors as discussed by the authors was conceived as a new genre for sharing interest in the history of anthropology, and it has been widely used in the past few years. But it has not yet been applied to the field of genealogies.
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Anthropologists and the History of Anthropology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that l'histoire de l'anthropologie is en relation androite with the history of science, and that anthropologues and historians of science ont des vues different from each other.
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
TL;DR: A Highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the Pacific Ocean as mentioned in this paper, a road map of the world's first voyage to the Indian Ocean, is presented in Section 2.1.
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Race, Culture and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology
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The Renaissance Foundations of Anthropology
TL;DR: In this paper, the anthropological tradition of interest in differences among men had its beginnings in the Italian Renaissance of the 14th and 15th centuries and specifically in Renaissance archaeology, and the first differences which were recognized as significant to a general understanding of mankind were the cultural and linguistic differences between Classical antiquity and what was then the present.