Henrika Kuklick
Biographic Data
| ID | 90643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrika Kuklick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrika |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuklick |
| SIGNATURE | KUKLICK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 334 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
After Ishmael
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
History of Anthropology
This chapter concerns primarily with the literature on the history of sociocultural anthropology, which is by far the largest of anthropology's subfields. It emphasizes the anglophone anthropology, which dominated the entire discipline until relatively recently. The chapter indicates how the literature reflects and has often been intended to shape a particular disciplinary structure. Historians of science have their own subculture of inquiry. In …
Family Feud
Personal Equations
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, diverse sciences grounded in natural history made a virtue of field research that somehow tested scientists' endurance; disciplinary change derived from the premise that witnesses were made reliable by character-molding trials. The turn to the field was a function of structural transformations in various quarters, including (but hardly limited to) global politics, communications systems, and scientifi…
Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments. By Eric Ames
Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914-1919
Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914–1919
HENRIKA KUKLICKIn large part, the activities that British anthropologists undertook during World War I and the conclusions they reached then sustained disciplinary trends that had begun at the turn of the century.Th e journals produced by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) of Great Britain and Ireland (the geographical terms together equaled the United Kingdom) published very little with direct relevance to the war, and had content practic…
Mills, David
Anthropos , Seite 663 - 665
Books
A history of Oxford anthropology - By Peter Rivière
The Rise and Fall - and Potential Resurgence - of the Comparative Method, With Special Reference to Anthropology
Humanity in the chrysalis stage’
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen's Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899) is now remembered as an approximation of the anthropological method that would soon be conventional: a comprehensive study of a delimited area, based on sustained fieldwork, portraying a population's distinctive character. In 1913, however, Bronislaw Malinowski said of Spencer and Gillen's studies that ‘half the total production in anthropological theory ha[d] been based…
Interpreting Aboriginal Religion
I begin this paper with what may seem an unlikely starting point: the cordial relationship of the scientific polymath Herbert Spencer and the Liberal politician W. E. Gladstone. In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Spencer flattered the then-prime minister extravagantly, telling him that his Liberal Party programme was nothing less than the realisation of the ethical system that Spencer believed to be scientifically based. 1 And though the relation…
Medicine Man
Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome. Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen, eds. London: The British Museum Press, 2003. 416 pp
Local heroes
Among historians and sociologists of science, it is a commonplace that scientists' accusations of plagiarism defy straightforward explanations. To appreciate that these accusations need not indicate simply that given individuals have claimed others' ideas as their own, it is important to remember that scientists' habits of communication create specialized research communities in which professional practices are - and are intended to be - relative…
Malinowski's Kiriwina
Assessing research in the history of sociology and anthropology
This paper reviews recent interpretive trends among historians of anthropology and sociology, examining both introductory texts and scholarly studies. It focuses on works published over the last ten years, and stresses that there has been no resolution of the long-standing conflict between "presentist" and "historicist" approaches to the history of the human sciences
Speaking with the Dead The Expansive Moment
Reinventing Africa
Islands in the Pacific
The intellectual lineage of the island model particularly associated with British functionalism is traced to Darwinian biogeography, from which it was abstracted in the 1920s; at that time both the patronage structure and the intellectual ecology of the discipline altered fundamentally. Darwinian biogeography itself is grounded in its sociohistorical context-in the problem of acclimatization raised by human population movements, particularly thos…
The Savage Within
The Retreat of Scientific Racism
Before Social Anthropology
Stuart Macintyre, The Poor Relation. A History of Social Sciences in Australia
The Savage Within
This article examines the development of British social anthropology between 1885 and 1945, focusing on the interplay between the discipline's intellectual project and the social anxieties of the period. It argues that anthropologists, grappling with issues of cultural difference and social evolution, projected anxieties about British society onto the "primitive" cultures they studied. The article explores how concerns about social degeneration, …
Personal Equations
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, diverse sciences grounded in natural history made a virtue of field research that somehow tested scientists' endurance; disciplinary change derived from the premise that witnesses were made reliable by character-molding trials. The turn to the field was a function of structural transformations in various quarters, including (but hardly limited to) global politics, communications systems, and scientifi…
The Sociology of Knowledge
Before World War II the intellectual climate of American sociology was congenial to the growth of a sociology of knowledge akin to Mannheim's. Yet in the postwar period American sociologists committed themselves to ahistorical theory, positivist methodology, and team research; their 'scientistic' sociology did not permit the historicism, relativism, and holism necessary to Mannheimian analysis. Currently, however, convergent trends in a number of…
A 'Scientific Revolution
Between 1930 and 1945 the sociological profession suffered an identity crisis. Its origin and resolution were compounded of both academic realpolitik and theoretical dilemmas: generational conflicts and university power blocs on the one hand, and persisting intellectual obsessions on the other. Contemporary sociologists may find our current situation to be both derivative and parallel
Reflections on Anthropology's Ethnographic Crisis of Faith
Islands in the Pacific
The intellectual lineage of the island model particularly associated with British functionalism is traced to Darwinian biogeography, from which it was abstracted in the 1920s; at that time both the patronage structure and the intellectual ecology of the discipline altered fundamentally. Darwinian biogeography itself is grounded in its sociohistorical context-in the problem of acclimatization raised by human population movements, particularly thos…
The Imperial Bureaucrat
Humanity in the chrysalis stage’
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen's Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899) is now remembered as an approximation of the anthropological method that would soon be conventional: a comprehensive study of a delimited area, based on sustained fieldwork, portraying a population's distinctive character. In 1913, however, Bronislaw Malinowski said of Spencer and Gillen's studies that ‘half the total production in anthropological theory ha[d] been based…
The Savage Within
Chicago sociology and urban planning policy
The Savage Within
The Savage Within
This article examines the development of British social anthropology between 1885 and 1945, focusing on the interplay between intellectual currents and the social context in which the discipline emerged. It argues that the emphasis on "functionalism" in British anthropology during this period was not simply a theoretical development but was deeply intertwined with the social and political anxieties of the time, particularly concerning the stabili…
Restructuring the Past
The recent surge of interest in the history of the social sciences reflects the unsettled conditions which obtain within these disciplines. Historical analysis may prove an aid to the resolution of these conditions, but only if it does not fall into the genre generally called "whig history"—mythologized history which functions to legitimate contemporary practices by assimilating all previous developments to a stylized narrative of continuous, ine…
The Organization of Social Science in the United States
Interpreting Aboriginal Religion
I begin this paper with what may seem an unlikely starting point: the cordial relationship of the scientific polymath Herbert Spencer and the Liberal politician W. E. Gladstone. In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Spencer flattered the then-prime minister extravagantly, telling him that his Liberal Party programme was nothing less than the realisation of the ethical system that Spencer believed to be scientifically based. 1 And though the relation…
Taylorism Transformed
Journal Article Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory since 1945. By Stephen P. Waring. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xiv + 288 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-1972-7.) Get access Henrika Kuklick Henrika Kuklick University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1241–1242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
A history of Oxford anthropology - By Peter Rivière
The Rise and Fall - and Potential Resurgence - of the Comparative Method, With Special Reference to Anthropology
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
La caza costera tradicional de ballenas o "pesca de ballenas" se inicia en la zona de Talcahuano en la primera mitad del siglo XIX y luego se extiende hacia el sur de Chile, llegando hasta la Isla Grande de Chiloé.En este trabajo nos interesa escribir una etnografía de la caza costera en Tumbes e isla Santa María, denominada en la literatura de la época "pesca de ballenas".Los datos sobre estas operaciones provienen de una serie de informes escri…
The Impossible Science
Ourselves and Others
The Ecology of Sociology American Sociology and Pragmatism
A 'Scientific Revolution
Between 1930 and 1945 the sociological profession suffered an identity crisis. Its origin and resolution were compounded of both academic realpolitik and theoretical dilemmas: generational conflicts and university power blocs on the one hand, and persisting intellectual obsessions on the other. Contemporary sociologists may find our current situation to be both derivative and parallel
Prominent Sociologists since World War II
The Organization of Social Science in the United States
After Ishmael
Association News
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The Perils of Professionalism
Boundary maintenance in American sociology
The institutionalization of social scientific disciplines at the turn of the century did not, in fact, result in academic behavior consistent with the "professionalization" models now in vogue among students of this period. Formal attributes of "professional" status have not proven reliable indices to the degree of consensus predicted for a "mature" discipline, as is evident from the history of a single field, American sociology—ironically the so…
Restructuring the Past
The recent surge of interest in the history of the social sciences reflects the unsettled conditions which obtain within these disciplines. Historical analysis may prove an aid to the resolution of these conditions, but only if it does not fall into the genre generally called "whig history"—mythologized history which functions to legitimate contemporary practices by assimilating all previous developments to a stylized narrative of continuous, ine…
Chicago sociology and urban planning policy
Man, Mind, and Science
The Sociology of Knowledge Is Still Trying
Research in Sociology of Knowledge, Sciences and Art (Vol. 2)
The Culture of Professionalism
Journal Article The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. By Burton J. Bledstein. New York: Norton and A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892–1919. By Steven J. Diner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Get access Henrika Kuklick Henrika Kuklick University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
The French Encounter with Africans
The Sciences in the American Context
The Imperial Bureaucrat
Research in Sociology of Knowledge, Sciences and Art
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. Ludwik Fleck , Thaddeus J. Trenn , Robert K. Merton , Fred Bradley , Thaddeus J. Trenn
The Origin of Formalism in Social Sciences . Jeffrey T. Bergner
The Imperial Bureaucrat
The Imperial Bureaucrat
Toward a social history of social thought—an essay review
The Sociology of Knowledge
Before World War II the intellectual climate of American sociology was congenial to the growth of a sociology of knowledge akin to Mannheim's. Yet in the postwar period American sociologists committed themselves to ahistorical theory, positivist methodology, and team research; their 'scientistic' sociology did not permit the historicism, relativism, and holism necessary to Mannheimian analysis. Currently, however, convergent trends in a number of…
Ourselves and Others
Ancestor Worship Person and Myth
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