The Four Subfields
Anthropologists as Mythmakers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2463069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Borofsky (Hawaii Pacific University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 463-480 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.463 |
| OpenAlex | W2161835012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 29 |
A survey of articles published in the American Anthropologist over a 100-year period indicates that substantive collaboration across anthropological subfields is largely a myth-amounting toonly 311 of 3,264 articles surveyed (or 9.5 percent of the total). Working with the anthropological insights of Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Tylor, and Claude Levi-Strauss, this article considers why a myth of subf ield collaboration nonetheless exists within anthropology. This article concludes by calling for new forms of holism. [Keywords: American Anthropologist, subf ield collaboration, holism, public anthropology
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| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,87 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |