Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and others : essays on culture and personality
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Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and others : essays on culture and personality
（History of anthropology, v. 4）
University of Wisconsin Press, c1986
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
Contents of Works
- Essays on culture and personality
- Anthropology and the science of the irrational / George W. Stocking, Jr.
- Unconventional character and disciplinary convention / Jeremy MacClancy
- Abram Kardiner and the Neo-Freudian alternative in culture and personality / William C. Manson
- Melville Herskovits and the search for Afro-American culture / Walter Jackson
- Vigorous male and aspiring female / Richard Handler
- Personality and culture / Regna Darnell
- Science, democracy, and ethics / Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
- Between-the-wars Bali / James A. Boon
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History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats a theme of major importance in both the history and current practice of anthropological inquiry. Drawing its title from a poem of W. H. Auden's, the present volume, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others focuses on the emergence of anthropological interest in "culture and personality" during the 1920s and 1930s. It also explores the historical, cultural, literary, and biological background of major figures associated with the movement, including Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Sapir, Abram Kardiner, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson.
Born in the aftermath of World War I, flowering in the years before and after World War II, severely attacked in the 1950s and 1960s, "culture and personality" was subsequently reborn as "psychological anthropology." Whether this foreshadows the emergence of a major anthropological subdiscipline (equivalent to cultural, social, biological, or linguistic anthropology) from the current welter of "adjectival" anthropologies remain to be seen. In the meantime, the essays collected in the volume may encourage a rethinking of the historical roots of many issues of current concern.
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