{"product_id":"history-of-theory-and-method-regna-darnell-9781496231307","title":"History of Theory and Method in Anthropology","description":"Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \u003ci\u003eHistory of Theory and Method in Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the theory schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell's fifty-year career entails foundational writings in the four fields of the discipline: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Claude L騅i-Strauss, Franz Boas, Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Wesley Powell, Frederica de Laguna, Dell Hymes, George Stocking Jr., and Anthony F. C. Wallace, as well as nineteenth-century Native language classifications, ethnography, ethnohistory, social psychology, structuralism, rationalism, biologism, mentalism, race science, human nature and cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, standpoint-based epistemology, collaborative research, and applied anthropology. \u003ci\u003eHistory of Theory and Method in Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential volume for scholars and undergraduate and graduate students to enter into the history of the inductive theory schools and methodologies of the Americanist tradition and its legacies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Regna Darnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496231309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496231307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Regna Darnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057668288767,"sku":"9781496231307","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bab11bae-9660-4d31-a784-8c3b73435ab3.jpg?v=1685048267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-of-theory-and-method-regna-darnell-9781496231307","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}