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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Illustrations 10 Foreword 12 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction 18 1. Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual 26 2. Ruth Benedict: Relativist and Universalist 50 3. A Century of Margaret Mead 80 4. Education and Democracy in the Anthropology of Gene Weltfish 112 5. The Social Anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker 144 6. Culture and Race in the Classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American Education 174 7. Human Activity and a Theory of Schooling: An Assessment of Solon Kimball's Anthropology of Education 192 8. They Are All Our Children: Eleanor Lencock and the Anthropology of Education 220 References 244 Contributors 274 Index 276 Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2006,ISBN:9780803257047,Language:English,OCLC:85823522 Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. Included are Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology; Ruth Benedict, who analyzed modern societies during and after World War II; Margaret Mead, anthro

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Author

Cherneff, Jill B. R

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280735196

Category

nonfiction