Expanding American anthropology, 1945-1980 [electronic resource] : a generation reflects / edited by Alice Beck Kehoe and Paul L. Doughty ; with the assistance of Nancy K. Peske.

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ISBN:

9780817385897

Title:

Expanding American anthropology, 1945-1980 [electronic resource] : a generation reflects / edited by Alice Beck Kehoe and Paul L. Doughty ; with the assistance of Nancy K. Peske.

Author:

Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934-

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii. 295 pages)

Contents:

From relief and reconstruction to development : CARE de Mexico, 1952-60, a pilot program / Mary Elmendorf -- An anthropologist helps to create the Peace Corps in darkest Washington / Robert B. Textor -- Land use in the Ramah Navajo area : an early anthropological approach to human ecology / John Landgraf -- Anthropology and education and me / Harry F. Wolcott -- Anthropology and alcohol studies : a similar evolution, both parallel and linked / Dwight B. Heath -- Age is more than a number / Marjorie M. Schweitzer -- Involvement with technology, environment, and society / Willis E. Sibley -- America had no patrimony / Alice Beck Kehoe -- Back to the future, again : from community development to PAR / Paul L. Doughty -- From applied to practicing anthropology : an essay on theory and application / Thomas Weaver -- Eliot Chapple's long and lonely road / Alice Beck Kehoe and Jim Weil -- Anthropology and the business cycle (or, the rise from student rags to academic riches) / Walter Goldschmidt -- Philleo Nash : applied anthropologist, activist, cranberry farmer / Herbert S. Lewis -- American anthropology and the opening of the ethnographic "I" / Susan R. Trencher -- What are you doing here? / Norman E. Whitten Jr -- Linguistic anthropology / Dell Hymes -- Thinking big and thinking small : ethnohistory in the 1970s / Shepard Krech III -- A bottom-up view of big anthropology / J. Anthony Paredes -- My people in Washington / Nathalie F.S. Woodbury -- Legitimating peace studies / Alice Beck Kehoe -- War and peace and Margaret Mead : in search of a role for anthropology in the reduction of international violence / William O. Beeman -- "Honey out of the lion" : peace research emerging from mid-20th-century violence / Robert Knox Dentan -- Looking back, and forward / J. Anthony Paredes and Alice Beck Kehoe.

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Corporate Subject:

American Anthropological Association.

Subject Term:

Anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Anthropologists' writings, American.

Added Author:

Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934-

Doughty, Paul L.

Peske, Nancy K., 1962-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

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Summary

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology's participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual practitioners. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) called upon a number of its leaders to give accounts of their particular innovations in the discipline. This volume is the result of the AAA venture--a set of primary documents on the history of American anthropology at a critical juncture.
In preparing the volume, the editors endeavored to maintain the feeling of "oral history" within the chapters and to preserve the individual voices of the contributors. There are many books on the history of anthropology, but few that include personal essays from such a broad swath of different perspectives. The passing of time will make this volume increasingly valuable in understanding the development of American anthropology from a small discipline to the profession of over ten thousand practitioners.

Author Notes

Alice Beck Kehoe is professor emeritus of anthropology at Marquette University, and author of a dozen books, including C ontroversies in Archaeology, The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization, and North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account.
Paul L. Doughty is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida. He is coauthor of Peru: A Cultural History and Peasants, Power, and Applied Social Change: Vicos as a Model.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

The editors of this expertly compiled collection strive to highlight the shift in anthropology during the postwar era and beyond from a small academic field to what they call "an increasingly outreaching discipline." Using an oral history format, Kehoe and Doughty provide a keen sense of how anthropology changed during this period, but also how some things remained the same. With the book's drawing from the experiences of senior anthropologists in a wide range of geographical and topical areas, the history of anthropology takes on a personal and more "real" feel. Woven into the fabric of their narratives are the intellectual and theoretical developments anthropology faced as the discipline grew. The reader is able to gain a strong sense of the historical dimensions of anthropology in a way that counters the usual treatment--big theories and their creators--and thus a more intimate connection to the field and its practitioners. And despite a somewhat sure idea by many of the senior members that anthropology was a field headed toward "oblivion," what emerges from this exercise is a renewed hope for the future of the discipline. Especially poignant are the conversations on applied and practicing anthropology and its relevance. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. D. M. Digrius Stevens Institute of Technology