Herbert S Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 88249 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Herbert S Lewis |
| PRENOMES | Herbert S |
| SOBRENOME | Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIS H S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 87 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 334 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Franz Boas's Relationship to Jews and Jewishness
Franz Boas était profondément attaché aux idéaux d’universalisme et à l’importance de l’individu dans la société. Tout son être était engagé dans la démonstration de l’humanité commune et partagée de tous les peuples, dans la lutte contre le déterminisme racial et dans la mise en avant de l’environnement plutôt que de l’héritage génétique. Tout au long de sa vie, il combattit le racisme anti-Noirs, l’antisémitisme et toutes les formes de préjugés…
Correcting the Record
Chapter 1. Does a Decolonized Anthropology Require Reinterpreting the Past
A critical paradigm for the histories of anthropology
The article presents a discussion focused on Regna Darnell's concepts of critical paradigm and transportable knowledge in relation to contemporary studies in history of anthropology, put forward in her essay based on the text written for the keynote address at EASA's History of Anthropology Network and reproduced in BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. Assessing the changing disciplinary scene of humanities and soc…
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past
Decolonizing US Anthropology," by Akhil Gupta and Jessie Stoolman, is motivated by the "renewed calls for a racial reckoning in US anthropology" by members of a younger generation of anthropologists.After an exercise of counterfactual history, the authors write, "We therefore cannot decolonize the discipline today without reinterpreting and rethinking the past."But is this really necessary?I suggest, on the contrary, that today's anthropologists …
The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or
Simon D. Messing
The Addis Five
The Way We Were
S teward, J ulian H . (1902–72)
Julian H. Steward, a leading figure in American anthropology from the 1940s through the 1960s, was important as a theoretical innovator and for his role in the expansion of the scope of American anthropology. A strong advocate of a positivistic search for regularities and causes in culture, he advanced a modified materialist approach to change that rested in part on a concern with the interaction of environment and culture, which he called cultur…
Franz Boas and Friends? Not Really
Blackhawk, Ned, and Isaiah L. Wilner. 2018. Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas. New Haven: Yale University Press.The editors of this volume proclaim their intention to demonstrate the revolutionary influence of Indigenous thinkers on the ideas of Franz Boas, but the work falls far short of their aim. Despite the inclusion of a number of interesting contributions dealing with remarkable individuals, with one exception none o…
Anthropology or Cultural and Critical Theory? 1
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory has a far higher percentage of entries devoted to individual authors than does The Dictionary of Anthropology , an indicator of the relative importance to each of writing and pure theory versus the study of the diversity and commonality of human behavior. Thomas C. Greaves, one of the very few anthropologists among the 116 contributors to the Payne volume, concludes his article on cultural anthropology…
Imagining Anthropology’s History
"The process of European global power has been central to the anthropological task of recording and analyzing the ways of life of subject populations". From the standpoint of anthropology, it is also reflexive, addressing the colonial use and formation of ethnography and its supporting practices of travel. The modern anthropological doctrine of cultural relativism grew out of American anthropology and the ideas and teachings of Franz Boas, which …
Franz Boas
The prominence of women in American anthropology from its beginnings as an academic discipline is obvious. This fact, too, may owe a great deal to the biography of Franz Boas, who taught the vast majority of women with PhD degrees in anthropology before the 1940s—indeed, almost all of them until Berkeley started granting PhDs to women after 1928. Ruth Benedict claimed that, Boas "found anthropology a collection of wild guesses and a happy hunting…
American Anthropology and the Cold War
This chapter presents the historiography of anthropology from the disciplinary perspective; it can also be seen as a preemptive strike, delivered in the knowledge that critical histories are being prepared. It discusses some of Thomas C. Patterson&s;s contentions regarding the extent to which the nature of anthropology itself—the topics dealt with and the guiding ideas—were influenced by the Cold War. The chapter focuses on Cold War, however, Pat…
Anthropology Then and Now
This chapter presents an old man&s;s dark and critical view of the present state of anthropology. The promising developments of the interwar period, which depended on the interplay of more than one of the four fields, included the all-important work of Joseph H. Greenberg, who rewrote the principles for the understanding of African ethnohistory. In the late 1970s, a new critique of anthropology burst on the scene as several younger anthropologist…
The Passion of Franz Boas
This chapter offers a view of Franz Boas, with specific reference to his political activities and his relations with others, that the author hope may encourage some readers to be more understanding of Franz Boas and more critical of the negative claims. In January 1905, Franz Boas submitted a proposal to the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Carnegie Foundation for a massive comparative study, focusing on American Indian and Negro populations.…
Was Anthropology the Child, the Tool, or the Handmaiden of Colonialism?
This chapter focuses on the question of anthropology&s;s role in colonial rule. It explores that the historical background presented will add some reality to a discourse that is usually carried on as a gloss on the writings of famous postmodern and postcolonial thinkers. The trope of anthropology as the child of colonialism sounded great in 1968. The origins of American anthropology as a professional discipline can be dated to the years after 189…
Epilogue
Historians and students of literature have been dealing with these trends, too—in fact, the latter have often prospered within the post and critical discourses—but American anthropology has been shaken to its core, narrowed in scope and spirit, and left diminished and uncertain. An examination of a number of recent introductory anthropology texts reveals a telling fact. By giving high visibility to attacks on anthropology and anthropologists, the…
Donald N. Levine, Interpreting Ethiopia
Review
In Defense of Anthropology
The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences
Critiques of anthropology from within the discipline and from without have been a major feature of our intellectual life since the late 1960s. The theoretical and empirical bases of cultural and social anthropology have been under attack since the Marxist and New Left critiques of the 1960s to those coming more recently from poststructuralism, postmodernist and literary theory, and postcolonial and cultural studies. As a result, several academic …
Disentangling disciplines
In Defense of Anthropology
This book argues that the history and character of modern has been egregiously distorted to the detriment of this intellectual pursuit and academic discipline. The of anthropology is a product of the momentous and tormented events of the 1960s when students and some of their elders cried, Trust no one over thirty! The Marxist, postmodern, and postcolonial waves that followed took aim at and the result has been a serious loss of confidence; both t…
Walter Rochs Goldschmidt (1913-2010)
The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences
Critiques of anthropology from within the discipline and from without have been a major feature of our intellectual life since the late 1960s. The theoretical and empirical bases of cultural and social anthropology have been under attack since the Marxist and New Left critiques of the 1960s to those coming more recently from poststructuralism, postmodernist and literary theory, and postcolonial and cultural studies. As a result, several academic …
War
Practice and Political Centralisation
The Origins of the Galla and somali
This study presents a reconstruction of the origins and major movements of the Galla and Somali of Northeast Africa which departs from most of the previous literature on the subject. The traditional view has been that the Galla occupied most of the Horn of Africa until the Somali, beginning about the tenth century, swept south and south-west from the shores of the Gulf of Aden driving the Galla before them. The pressure of the Somali has also bee…
The Passion of Franz Boas
The reputation of Franz Boas as a scientist declined in the decades after his death in 1942, but his reputation as a champion of human rights and an opponent of racism remained intact. More recently, however, some writers have questioned the sincerity, the results, and the political implications of his anthropology and his work against racism and ethnocentrism. Others have been critical of his relations with colleagues and students such as Ella D…
Anthropologists and Anthropology
The Radical Transformation of Anthropology
The Radical Transformation of Anthropology:History Seen through the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, 1955–2005 Herbert S. Lewis (bio) There are those who celebrate the radical transformation of anthropology, those who mourn it, and those for whom it is unknown ancient history. The world of cultural and social anthropology was turned upside down long ago, but this great transformation has not begun to be documented.1 In…
A Galla Monarchy
The Influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on Anthropology, or
Franz Boas
Franz Boas organized and shaped American anthropology. No academic discipline of similar scope owed so much to just one person. Within three decades of coming to the United States from Germany he had trained the anthropologists who established its place within the universities and redirected its tone and ethos as well as its theories. The biographies under review help us understand the background, aims, and drive of the man. We shall consider, in…
Anthropology, the Cold War, and Intellectual History
4. Anthropology, the Cold War, and Intellectual History Herbert S. Lewis (bio) The growth of interest in the history of anthropology, of which this new annual is one manifestation, has at least two discernible motivations and "traditions." One of these, called "disciplinary history" (by some of its opponents, in fact), arose from within the intellectual concerns of the field itself and owes a great deal to the writing and students of A. I. Hallow…
The Dictionary of Anthropology.; Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology
The Dictionary of Anthropology. Thomas Barfield. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. 626 pp. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life. Tim Ingold. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997. 1128 pp. . Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Michael Payne. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1996. 644 pp
Famine and Survival Strategies
I ''A growing period is a part of the year during which the moisture supply from precipitation and soil water storage and the temperature
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past
Decolonizing US Anthropology," by Akhil Gupta and Jessie Stoolman, is motivated by the "renewed calls for a racial reckoning in US anthropology" by members of a younger generation of anthropologists.After an exercise of counterfactual history, the authors write, "We therefore cannot decolonize the discipline today without reinterpreting and rethinking the past."But is this really necessary?I suggest, on the contrary, that today's anthropologists …
Franz Boas and Friends? Not Really
Blackhawk, Ned, and Isaiah L. Wilner. 2018. Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas. New Haven: Yale University Press.The editors of this volume proclaim their intention to demonstrate the revolutionary influence of Indigenous thinkers on the ideas of Franz Boas, but the work falls far short of their aim. Despite the inclusion of a number of interesting contributions dealing with remarkable individuals, with one exception none o…
Imagining Anthropology's History
In 1968, when so much happened that began to reshape the academic world, Kathleen Gough published her article on anthropology as the child and handmaiden of colonialism (1968a, 1968b). It was the b
Anthropology and Race, Then and Now
A New Look at Actor-Oriented Theory
History, Power, Ideology
Neighbors, Friends, and Kinsmen
In Defense of Anthropology
A Response to Sandy Toussaint's Commentary
Religion and Politics in East Africa
Walter Rochs Goldschmidt (1913-2010)
Morton Klass (1927-2000)
The East African High Commission and Other Regional Documents. Helen F. Conover (Compiler)
General and Ethnology
A Pastoral Democracy. I. M. Lewis
C oncerning H aberland's C omments on R eview of Altvölker Süd‐Äthiopiens
Other
The Origins of the Galla and somali
This study presents a reconstruction of the origins and major movements of the Galla and Somali of Northeast Africa which departs from most of the previous literature on the subject. The traditional view has been that the Galla occupied most of the Horn of Africa until the Somali, beginning about the tenth century, swept south and south-west from the shores of the Gulf of Aden driving the Galla before them. The pressure of the Somali has also bee…
A Galla Monarchy
The Origins of African Kingdoms
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Haberland's Review of Lewis
Authority nnd Change
Prelude to East African History. Merrick Posnansky
General and Ethnology
War
Ethnology
General
Ethiopia
Political Change in Bechuanaland
African Political Systems
African Political Systems
Political Anthropology
Ethnographic Study
Neighbors, Friends, and Kinsmen
Nomads in Alliance
Anthropologists and Anthropology
Africans of Two Worlds
Sociology (52 obras) · History (50 obras) · Anthropology (41 obras) · History (36 obras) · Political science (29 obras) · Computer Science (26 obras) · Law (26 obras) · African history and culture analysis (25 obras) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (24 obras) · Philosophy (24 obras)