ISBN:
9781800731592
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 139 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Anthropology's ancestors volume 2
Series Statement:
Anthropology's ancestors
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DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Smith, William Robertson
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
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Anthropologists Biography 19th century
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Anthropology of religion History 19th century
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Myth and ritual school
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Orientalism
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Biografie
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Biografie
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Smith, William Robertson 1846-1894
Abstract:
The life and career of one of anthropology's most important ancestors, William Robertson Smith in the context of the history of anthropology. William Robertson Smith's influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about "Totem" and "Taboo" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the "Myth and Ritual School." With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Émile Durkheim. "This is a clear, well-informed and interesting account of Robertson Smith's central ideas. The theories are set in the context of debates of the day, and their influence on anthropology and bible studies is discussed. An original and fascinating section reviews Robertson Smith's field work in the Middle East, which was much more extensive and intensive than is, I think, generally appreciated."-Adam Kuper, London School of Economics From the introduction: Although respected and studied, especially since the 1990s, Smith has a somewhat paradoxical position in the history of social and cultural anthropology. Anthropologists educated in the twentieth century admire him, but many contemporary scholars are not quite sure what to make of him
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800731592
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