{"product_id":"anthropologists-and-the-rediscovery-of-john-s-gilkeson-9781107685765","title":"Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886-1965","description":"This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a \"complex whole\" far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's \"the best which has been thought and said,\" so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. Gilkeson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107685761\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107685765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"John S. Gilkeson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169697067263,"sku":"9781107685765","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fec54336-cb84-42f2-86ca-5e8ad664393a.jpg?v=1689654404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anthropologists-and-the-rediscovery-of-john-s-gilkeson-9781107685765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}