Visionary observers : anthropological inquiry and education /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2006.
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Series: | Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.