Making Anthropology Public: Historical Particularism: Boas, Kroeber and Whorf
FRANZ BOAS Franz Boas changed American anthropology by introducing a new perspective of historical integration in understanding society. He discredits the method of evolutionary theories and stresses...
View ArticleMaking Anthropology Public: Savage Minds on the Occupy Movements
On an unrelated note, here is a posting from Savage Minds (i.e., the best Anthro blog out there) regarding “how anthropology and the occupy movement” overlap. [savageminds.org] Academia and #OWS: An...
View ArticleMaking Anthropology Public: Personality and Culture
The theorists of the culture and personality school argue that culture creates personality patterns. One’s culture helps shape people’s emotions, thought behavior, values and norms that fit their...
View ArticleMaking Anthropology Public: Cultural Ecology and Neo-Evolutionary Thought
Julian Steward Studied anthropology at Berkley under A.L. Kroeber. He first started in archeology and then moved to ethnography and worked with the Shoshoni, Pueblo, and later the Carrier Indians in...
View Article
