Cover 1
Frontmatter 2
Contents 8
Illustrations 10
Foreword 12
Acknowledgments 16
Introduction 18
1. Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual 26
2. Ruth Benedict: Relativist and Universalist 50
3. A Century of Margaret Mead 80
4. Education and Democracy in the Anthropology of Gene Weltfish 112
5. The Social Anthropology of Hortense Powdermaker 144
6. Culture and Race in the Classroom: Jules Henry and Ruth Landes on American Education 174
7. Human Activity and a Theory of Schooling: An Assessment of Solon Kimball's Anthropology of Education 192
8. They Are All Our Children: Eleanor Lencock and the Anthropology of Education 220
References 244
Contributors 274
Index 276
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2006,ISBN:9780803257047,Language:English,OCLC:85823522
Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education. Included are Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology; Ruth Benedict, who analyzed modern societies during and after World War II; Margaret Mead, anthropology's most recognized public educator; Gene Weltfish, whose “pragmatic anthropology” positioned education at the core of culture; Hortense Powdermaker, whose fieldwork embraced Black America, Hollywood, and the Pacific; Solon Kimball, who studied the impact of desegregation; Ruth Landes, who adopted a cultural approach to educating teachers; Jules Henry, who analyzed the institutional consequences of imposing middle-class culture; and Eleanor Leacock, who pioneered “advocacy anthropology.”€The questions they asked—about culture and human behavior, democracy and inequality, and systemic function and disjunction—and the dilemmas they faced as citizen-scientists are recurrent ones. The topics they addressed illustrate how the lens of American anthropology has long been focused on domestic issues. Through its emphasis on anthropologists as practitioners as well as theorists, this anthology adds a new dimension to the history and development of anthropology in the United States.

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