Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A World Destroyed -- 2 From Nietzsche to the Antipodes -- 3 Australia and the Science of Man -- 4 Eugenics and the Science of Population -- 5 Becky and the Nazis -- 6 'My dear cousin Clementine' …
George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name, Pitt-Rivers appeared to be …
"George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name, Pitt-Rivers appeared to be…
Biography of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.
"The Inheritance is anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli's graphic memoir in which she explores her family's history and the events, traumas, and social structures that define our individual and collective pasts and futures."--
Tracing Mead's career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book looks at Mead's early career through the end of World War II, when she …
"Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez shares an important look at his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of an interdisciplinary field of transborder anthropology"
"Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez shares an important look at his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of an interdisciplinary field of transborder anthropology"
"Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez shares an important look at his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of an interdisciplinary field of transborder anthropology"--.
