Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist - Couverture souple

Clemmer, Richard O

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0874809495 ISBN 13 : 9780874809497

Editeur : University of Utah Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

Julian Steward and the Great Basin is a critical assessment of Steward's work, the factors that influenced him, and his deep effect on American anthropology. Steward (1902-1972) was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology, the idea that societies evolve in adaptation to their human and natural environments. He was also central in shaping basic anthropological constructs such as "hunter-gatherer" and "adaptation." But his fieldwork took place almost entirely in the Great Basin.

In one sense, the phases of Steward's career epitomize the successive schools of anthropological theory and practice. Each chapter explores a different aspect of his work ranging from early efforts at documenting trait distributions to his later role in the development of social transformation theory, area studies, and applied anthropology.

Julian Steward and the Great Basin also corrects long-standing misperceptions that originated with Steward about lifeways of the Indians living between the Great Plains and California. It charts new directions for research, demanding a more exacting study of environmental conditions, material adaptations, and organizational responses, as well as an appreciation of the ideological and humanistic dimensions of Basin Life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Clemmer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. He is the author of Roads in the Sky: The Hopi Indians in a Century of Change.

L. Daniel Myers is a consulting anthropologist with Epochs Past in Dunkirk, Maryland.

Mary Elizabeth Rudden is a free-lance data analyst and documentary researcher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874809495
• ISBN 13: 9780874809497
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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