Visionary observers : anthropological inquiry and education / edited by Jill B.R. Cherneff and Eve Hochwald ; preface by Sydel Silverman.

Other author Cherneff, Jill B. R.
Other author Hochwald, Eve.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxxiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesCritical studies in the history of anthropology
Critical studies in the history of anthropology. ^A561801
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-248) and index.
LCCN 2006009265
ISBN080326464X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780803264649 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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