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Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict & Others Essays on Culture and Personality Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr. History of Anthropology series, volume 4 "[Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict & Others] . . . tells of the brilliant American thinkers Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, and how the latter two moved into the center stage of history as planners/thinkers for American society during and after WW II. Vignettes reveal Malinowski, John Layard, Abram Kardiner, Melville Herskovits, Gregory Bateson, and Jane Belo. . . . This book deserves a far wider audience than its obvious target. . . . It should be held in every community college and university library, in every town and city."—Choice History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats a theme of major importance in both the history and current practice of anthropological inquiry. Drawing its title from a poem of W. H. Auden's, the present volume, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and Others focuses on the emergence of anthropological interest in "culture and personality" during the 1920s and 1930s. It also explores the historical, cultural, literary, and biological background of major figures associated with the movement, including Bronislaw Manlinowski, Edward Sapir, Abram Kardiner, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Born in the aftermath of World War I, flowering in the years before and after World War II, severely attacked in the 1950s and 1960s, "culture and personality" was subsequently reborn as "psychological anthropology." Whether this foreshadows the emergence of a major anthropological subdiscipline (equivalent to cultural, social, biological, or linguistic anthropology) from the current welter of "adjectival" anthropologies remain to be seen. In the meantime, the essays collected in the volume may encourage a rethinking of the historical roots of many issues of current concern. Included in this volume are the contributions of Jeremy MacClancy, William C. Manson, William Jackson, Richard Handler, Regna Darnell, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, James A. Boon, and the editor. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Essays on Culture and Personality Anthropology and the Science of the Irrational: Malinowski's Encounter with Freudian Psychoanalysis George W. Stocking, Jr. Unconventional Character and Disciplinary Convention: John Layard, Jungian and Anthropologist Jeremy MacClancy Abram Kardiner and the Neo-Freudian Alternative in Culture and Personality William C. Manson Melville Herskovits and the Search of Afro-American Culture Walter Jackson Vigorous Male and Aspiring Female: Poetry, Personality, and Culture in Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict Richard Handler Personality and Culture: The Fate of the Sapirian Alternative Regna Darnell Science, Democracy, and Ethics: Mobilizing Culture and Personality for World War II Virginia Yans-McLaughlin Between-the-Wars Bali: Rereading the Relics James A. Boon Index George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Victorian Anthropology; After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888–1951; and The Ethnographer's Magic, and was the founder and long-time editor of the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He has been awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service by the American Anthropological Association. His most recent book with the University of Wisconsin Press is Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. 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

November 1988  LC: 86-40061 GN 270 pp.  6 x 9,  18 illus. ISBN 0-299-10734-5  Paper $24.95 x SHOPPING CART OPERATIONS For MasterCard/Visa holders, accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart and submit your order electronically. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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