Books & the Arts; May 5, 2020; The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology The Circle Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, and the origins of American anthropology.

From the 1880s through the 1940s, Boas and his "circle of renegade anthropologists" — as noted in King's subtitle — helped in the U.S. to establish anthropology as a discipline and confronted ...

The result — which reads in some places like a cultural-anthropology textbook from the 1970s, in others like a mesmerizing thriller — reveals a world in which some people strangle their elders ...

Among the topical interests of the cultural anthropology faculty are gender and sexuality, culture and power, modernity and consumption, kinship and relatedness, tourism and popular culture, medical ...

After spending two months in Calicut, India, and the surrounding towns in the state of Kerala, Sara Christensen, a fourth-year University of Toronto student, is hooked on anthropological field ...

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Though the book made Benedict a household name and a legend in the field of cultural anthropology, it has been widely criticized by Japanese and American scholars of Japan, not least because it ...