American anthropology & company historical explorations

Author/Creator:

Murray, Stephen O.

Publication/Creation:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

American anthropology & company historical explorations / Stephen O. Murray

Series Titles:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Critical studies in the history of anthropology.

Variant Titles:

American anthropology and company : historical explorations

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Anthropology--United States--History
Anthropological linguistics--United States--History
Sociology--United States--History

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Anthropology and some of its companions -- pt. 2. Sociology's increasingly uneasy relations with anthropology.

Summary:

In American Anthropology and Company, linguist and sociologist Stephen O. Murray explores the connections between anthropology, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and history, in broad-ranging essays on the history of anthropology and allied disciplines. On subjects ranging from Native American linguistics to the pitfalls of American, Latin American, and East Asian fieldwork, among other topics, American Anthropology and Company presents the views of a historian of anthropology interested in the theoretical and institutional connections between disciplines that have always be

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936717779802486

ISBN:

0-8032-4639-0

OCLC Number:

843201039
842885871