Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c2006
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-248) and index
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
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 long been focused on domestic issues
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 261 p.)
ISBN:080325704X
9780803257047

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