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Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965 / John S. Gilkeson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge books onlinePublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511779558
  • 0511779550
  • 9780511932731
  • 0511932731
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anthropologists and the rediscovery of America, 1886-1965.DDC classification:
  • 305.800973 22
LOC classification:
  • E184.A1 G47 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Culture in the American grain -- 2. Social class in the ethnography of the American scene -- 3. The psychology of culture and the American character -- 4. The drift of American values -- 5. America as a civilization.
Summary: "This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a "complex whole" far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's "the best which has been thought and said," so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references index.

"This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a "complex whole" far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's "the best which has been thought and said," so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Culture in the American grain -- 2. Social class in the ethnography of the American scene -- 3. The psychology of culture and the American character -- 4. The drift of American values -- 5. America as a civilization.

Print version record.

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