Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility

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George W. Stocking
Univ of Wisconsin Press, Dec 12, 1989 - Social Science - 280 pages
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.
 

Contents

Romantic Motives and the History of Anthropology
3
On the Boundless Subject of Anthropological Discourse Gregory Schrempp
10
Notes on the Formosan Ethnograqphy of George Psalmanzar Susan Stewart
44
Romantic Refusion and Cultural Anthropology Thomas De Zengotita
74
A Readingback James A Boon
124
Cultural Ambivalence in the Gilded Age Curtis M Hinsley
169
The Ethnographic Sensibility of the 1920s and the Dualism of the Anthropological Tradition George W Stocking Jr
208
Index
277
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George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the author of After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951; Victorian Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; and The Ethnographer’s Magic. In 1993, he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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