Visionary Observers: Anthropological Inquiry and Education

Language: English

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2006

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University of Nebraska Press, Published 2006. Paperback, xxiii, 261 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated with ten black-and-white photographs. In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers in red, featuring a photographic image of crossed eyeglasses with title lettering in white, show light bumping to edges with light overall scuffing. Binding tight with no spine crease. Title page bears a personalized inscription signed by both editors by first names only: "To Laurie / With love / Jill and Eve," dated April 2007. Pages clean and unmarked. Part of the "Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology" series, this volume examines the careers and contributions of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who shaped debates on race, education, and public policy: Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Gene Weltfish, Hortense Powdermaker, Jules Henry, Ruth Landes, Solon Kimball, and Eleanor Leacock. Each chapter, written by a specialist, assesses a figure's significance to the anthropology of education. Illustrated with ten archival black-and-white photographs. Contents: 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); References; Contributors; Index.

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Visionary Observers: Anthropological Inquiry and Education
Author
Jill B. R. Cherneff; Eve Hochwald
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University of Nebraska Press
Publication year
2006
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Paperback
Language
English
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23 cm
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