Reflections on Theory And History in Anthropology

by Salamone, Frank A.

• ISBN13: 9780761834540
• ISBN10: 0761834540
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-08
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

In Reflections on Theory and History in Anthropology, author Frank Salamone examines his more than 30 years of experience in the field of cultural anthropology and offers an optimistic, yet realistic, appraisal of the field's past, present, and future.

Author Biography

Frank A. Salamone is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Iona College

Table of Contents

Franz Boas: The Construction of Race and the Origins of African American Studies	1	(18)
In the Name of Science: The Cold War and the Direction of Scientific Pursuits	19	(18)
William Shedrick Willis Jr.	37	(4)
Ethnographic Writing	41	(4)
The Nigerian Example of Indirect Rule	45	(8)
The Polynesian Cultural Center and Mormon Image of the Body: Images of Paradise on Laie, Hawaii	53	(14)
The African Diaspora	67	(2)
The Reproduction of Main Street: The American Diplomatic Corps in Niger	69	(14)
Music and Anthropology	83	(2)
Jazz Meaning	85	(4)
In Search of Religion	89	(8)
Sufism	97	(4)
The Bori and I: Reflections of a Mature Anthropologist	101	(6)
The Tangibility of the Intangible: Beyond Empiricism	107	(8)
Yoruba Rituals	115	(2)
Hausa Shamans	117	(8)
Dukawa Views on Death	125	(14)
Missionaries in the Global Village	139	(16)
The Missionary and the Chief: The Interesting Sibling Relationship of Anthropologists and Missionaries	155	(16)
Hausa Wrestling in Ibadan as an Ethnic Boundary Marker	171	(10)
Colonialism and The Creation of Ethnic Identity	181	(4)
British Abolition of Slavery in Northern Nigeria and the Lucy Memorial Freed Slave's Home: Contradictory Pressures under the Dual Mandate	185	(14)
Post War Teens	199	(4)
Fashion in the Fifties	203	(14)
The Force Primeval: The Image of Jazz in American Literature	217