Visionary observers : anthropological inquiry and education /

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Explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. The topics they addressed illustrate how the lens of American anthropology has...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cherneff, Jill B. R., Hochwald, Eve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Educational anthropology > United States.
Anthropologists > United States.
Anthropologie et éducation > États-Unis.
Anthropologues > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Anthropologists
Educational anthropology
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Sydel Silverman
  • Introduction / Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald
  • Franz Boas: scientist and public intellectual / Regna Darnell
  • Ruth Benedict: relativist and universalist / Virginia Heyer Young
  • A century of Margaret Mead / Ray McDermott
  • Education and democracy in the anthropology of Gene Weltfish / Juliet Niehaus
  • The social anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker / Jill B.R. Cherneff
  • Culture and race in the classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American education / Richard Handler
  • Human activity and a theory of schooling: an assessment of Solon Kimball's anthropology of education / Alexander Moore
  • They are all our children: Eleanor Leacock and the anthropology of education / Eve Hochwald.

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