John S. Jr. Gilkeson

Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886 1965

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Produktbeschreibung

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781107685765
• ISBN-10: 1107685761
• Artikelnr.: 41197535

Autorenporträt

John S. Gilkeson is Associate Professor of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, where his teaching focuses on history and American studies. He has been Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is the author of Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Culture in the American grain
2. Social class in the ethnography of the American scene
3. The psychology of culture and the American character
4. The drift of American values
5. America as a civilization.