The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists

Gerald Gaillard0415228255, 9780415228251

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
General remarks and acknowledgements……Page 8
List of abbreviations……Page 11
The nineteenth century and the evolutionists……Page 14
Field workers and early informants……Page 41
The turn of the century: The diffusionist schools……Page 53
American anthropology……Page 68
The French tradition and the Institut d’ethnologie……Page 98
The American tradition from the end of the First World War to the 1950s……Page 114
British functionalist anthropology……Page 147
Mauss’s students and the Institut d’ethnologie in the interwar years……Page 184
The other European schools……Page 212
Latin America……Page 264
Asia……Page 279
The French-speaking schools from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s……Page 305
The American schools: Third and fourth generations……Page 335
The British schools since 1945……Page 364
Index……Page 390