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Romantic
Motives
Essays
on Anthropological Sensibility
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
History
of Anthropology series, volume 6
"Romantic
Motives maintains the high scholarly standards of this series."—Choice
Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been
underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking
the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder,
Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Lévi-Strauss,
and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and
recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition.
"What
can be said about the ethnographic concern with 'Romantic sensibility'
that counterpoints anthropology's more dominant image of itself
as a scientific discourse? . . . The editor of this fascinating
collection notes that responding to this challenge is a more
timely enterprise than might at first appear. In his long, concluding
essay on the dualism of the anthropological tradition, Stocking
[explores] ethnographic sensibility in three studies of the 1920s
that later became the focus of famous controversies: Ruth Benedict
on Pueblo culture; Robert Redfield on Tepoztlan; and Margaret
Mead on Samoa. Romantic Motives maintains the high scholarly
standards of this series."—Choice
"Among the most distinguished publications
in anthropology, as well as in the history of social sciences."—George
Marcus, Anthropologica
"This exploration of anthropology's Romantic strains
considers the writings of Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Rousseau,
Herder, Sapir, Levi-Strauss, Cushing, Psalmanazar, and others.
"This fascinating collection notes that . . . the 'reflexive,'
'hermeneutic,' 'interpretive,' and 'deconstructive' proclivities
of contemporary anthropology are to some extent all manifestations
of the 'Romantic sensibility' at issue here."—Choice
George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee
on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of
Chicago. He is editor of the History of Anthropology series published
by the University of Wisconsin Press and the author of After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951;
Victorian Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; The Ethnographer's Magic; and Delimiting Antropology. In 1993, he was
awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Other volumes in the History of Anthropology series
Volume 1, Observers
Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Volume 2, Functionalism
Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 3, Objects and Others: Essays on
Museums and Material Culture
Volume 4, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict
and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality
Volume 5, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays
on Biological Anthropology
Volume 6, Romantic Motives:
Essays on Anthropological Sensibility
Volume 7, Colonial Situations:
Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
Volume 8, Volksgeist as Method and Ethic:
Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological
Tradition
Volume 9, Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions:
Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
Volume 10, Significant
Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
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February
1996
280 pp. 6 x 9
16 b/w photos
ISBN 0-299-12364-2 Paper $24.95 x
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