American Anthropology and Company Historical Explorations.

Murray, Stephen O.

American Anthropology and Company Historical Explorations. - Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (399 pages). - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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.



9781299535329 9780803246393


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


Electronic Books.

GN17 / .A447 2013