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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"History of Anthropology"”.
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The Sorcerers' Apprentice: A life of Reo Franklin Fortune, Anthropologist
… two World Wars, the two main schools in world anthropology were the American and the British. The former was dominated by Franz Boas and his graduate students, while in Britain and its Empire the dominant figures were A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski. These leaders acted as …
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Clark Wissler, a forgotten influence in American anthropology
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the institutional history of Clark Wissler's professional career as an anthropologist and to determine his influence upon American social science in this context. By focusing on specific historical contexts in which Wissler affected social science …
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
At the beginning of the twentieth century anthropology was a discipline marked by an interest in measuring skeletons, collecting ornamental curios and speculating about the evolution of society. From the 1920s onwards, however, anthropologists were increasingly urged to leave their armchairs and …
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Museums, Connections, and Imagination in the Making of a British World, 1870-1945
… in which they were based, from the last third of the nineteenth century to 1945. Focusing on museums and art galleries in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada, as well as on the scientists, philanthropists, and artists who gravitated around them, it develops a comparative and …
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Church and society in Tuvalu
… as exemplified in the Christian religion of Tuvalu (Central Pacific). It also examines that notion in Western social science, official descriptions, and missionary accounts and posits a strong ideological connection between these and indigenous communalism.
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Paths to enlightenment: Theravada Buddhism in upper Burma
… on fieldwork in Mandalay, Burma and on the study of Theravada Buddhist texts. Religious, cultural, and social realities are contrasted with the doctrinal foundations of the Theravada Buddhist tradition taking into account indigenous perceptions and cosmological computations of relationships …
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"""The power of a wise imagination"": Case studies in value conflict in early eighteenth century America"
The public discourse surrounding a variety of issues discussed in the American colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century reveals a persistent clash of values. During this period, colonists debated the legitimacy of paper money, the role of itinerant ministers, the basis of political …
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Patchwork jacket and loincloth: An ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal, a specific group of people who are mendicant religious musicians and whose religious beliefs and practices are expressed in their songs. Since Rabindranath Tagore called the attention of the public to the richness of the Baul songs …
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Divine justice: Cosmology, ritual, and Protestant missionization in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
This dissertation contains an examination of the process and consequences of Protestant missionization in highland Central Sulawesi. Most particularly, it concerns the Tobaku people, a regionally united group of Uma speakers who reside in the southwestern part of the Kulawi subdistrict. The …
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Colour and Colour Vision in Late Nineteenth Century British Sciences
This thesis employs a close reading of archival and published sources to explore the origins of colour vision science in 19th century Britain. By drawing attention to wide ranging dialogues and disagreements between diverse figures with different visions of colour, including physicists David …