Julia E Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 120838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia E Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia E |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scripps College, Claremont, California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Patrons of Paleontology
Jane P. Davidson's Patrons of Paleontology is a handsome study of the “symbiotic interaction” between government patrons and the science of paleontology, the study of past geological periods based on the fossil remains of plants and animals (p. xvi). With fascinating illustrations, the book details these relationships from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Europe, the colonial outposts of the British Empire, and the United States—fo…
Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
This thought-provoking book explores a rarely examined asymmetry in anthropology: its interest in the culture of “out-of-the way” Indians and the race of “in-the-way” Negroes, to use Lee D. Baker's terminology (pp. 9, 16). Baker argues that those preoccupations were connected; the study of American Indian culture affected the understanding of African American race. Those views—generated by anthropologists and reformers—also affected how Indian an…
The Trashing of Margaret Mead
Cosmopolitanism
Franz Boas
Review of the book "Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906" by Herbert S. Lewis
Social Evolutionism
Social Evolutionism
Franz Boas
Review of the book "Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906" by Herbert S. Lewis
Cosmopolitanism
Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture
This thought-provoking book explores a rarely examined asymmetry in anthropology: its interest in the culture of “out-of-the way” Indians and the race of “in-the-way” Negroes, to use Lee D. Baker's terminology (pp. 9, 16). Baker argues that those preoccupations were connected; the study of American Indian culture affected the understanding of African American race. Those views—generated by anthropologists and reformers—also affected how Indian an…
The Trashing of Margaret Mead
Patrons of Paleontology
Jane P. Davidson's Patrons of Paleontology is a handsome study of the “symbiotic interaction” between government patrons and the science of paleontology, the study of past geological periods based on the fossil remains of plants and animals (p. xvi). With fascinating illustrations, the book details these relationships from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Europe, the colonial outposts of the British Empire, and the United States—fo…
Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Art (2 works)