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Histories of Anthropology

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Editors:
  1. Gabriella D'Agostino

    1. Department of Cultures and Societies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  2. Vincenzo Matera

    1. Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, University of Milano, Milan, Italy

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  • Presents a global history of anthropology
  • Elucidates the diversity of local manifestations of anthropological theory, genealogies and institutional practice
  • Pays special attention to history of anthropology in ex-colonial and marginal contexts

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: For a History of Anthropology in the Plural

    • Gabriella D’Agostino, Vincenzo Matera
    Pages 1-46

  3. People and Ideas from Elsewhere: Notes on Social Anthropology in the UK

    • Luca Rimoldi, Marco Gardini
    Pages 47-74

  4. French Anthropology, Ethnology of France and the Contemporary Turn

    • Matteo Aria
    Pages 75-125

  5. From Herder to Strecker: Birth and Developments of the Anthropological Notion of Culture in Germany

    • Marco Bassi
    Pages 127-155

  6. Cultural Anthropology in Italy in the Twentieth Century

    • Fabio Dei
    Pages 157-179

  7. Chronology of a Discipline: Social and Cultural Anthropology in Spain

    • María Rubio Gómez, F. Javier García Castaño, Gloria Calabresi
    Pages 181-224

  8. From the Regime Ethnologists to the Democratic Generation: Histories of Portuguese Anthropology

    • Giacomo Pozzi, Chiara Pussetti
    Pages 225-250

  9. Anthropology in Russia: From Nineteenth-Century Ethnography to the New Post-Soviet Anthropology

    • Pietro Scarduelli
    Pages 251-270

  10. Indigenous Ethnologists, National Anthropologists, Post-colonial Intellectuals: The Trajectory of Anthropology in French-Speaking West and Equatorial Africa

    • Alice Bellagamba
    Pages 271-297

  11. A Nerve Centre of the Discipline on the Periphery of the Empire: South Africa and Anthropology in the Twentieth Century

    • Stefano Allovio
    Pages 299-317

  12. American Anthropology: Some Distinctive Features

    • Angela Biscaldi
    Pages 319-331

  13. From Hegemony to Fragmentation: North American Cultural Anthropology Over the Past Fifty Years

    • Berardino Palumbo
    Pages 333-385

  14. Trajectories and Subjects of Brazilian Anthropology

    • Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz
    Pages 387-401

  15. From the Study of Indigenous Cultures to the Critics of Modernity: On Anthropology made in Colombia

    • Alessandro Mancuso
    Pages 403-437

  16. History of Anthropology in Mexico: From Nation Building to the Recognition of Diversity

    • Rodrigo Llanes Salazar
    Pages 439-468

  17. Social Anthropology in India: Studying the Self in the Other

    • Sara Roncaglia
    Pages 469-516

  18. The Diverse Accounts of Anthropology in Viet Nam

    • Elena Bougleux
    Pages 517-547

  19. Australian Anthropology in Its Colonial Context

    • Dario Di Rosa
    Pages 549-568

  20. Five Paths for a History of the Pacific Islands

    • Adriano Favole
    Pages 569-591
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About this book

This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and academies in different locations, how the anthropological approach has been modelled and adapted according to specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural features of different areas, and which schools emerge as the most consolidated today.
Each chapter presents a “cultural history” of one of the historical-cultural and geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight the local contributions to the discipline, the influences that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also the ways in which the peripheries have “learned from the centres” in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise recognisable disciplinary lines. 



Reviews

"The book offers a fresh analysis of the discipline’s unfolding in different nation states by tracing the historical trajectories of lesser known anthropological traditions in terms of theoretical and methodological practices. This is for the first time the editors are making an attempt to go beyond the dominant American and European traditions which have so far been the main point of departure while tracing the history of the discipline in different parts of the world." (Soumendra Patnaik, Professor of Anthropology, University of Delhi)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cultures and Societies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Gabriella D'Agostino

  • Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, University of Milano, Milan, Italy

    Vincenzo Matera

About the editors

Gabriella D’Agostino is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Palermo University, Department of Cultures and Societies, Italy. She is author of the book Sous le traces. Anthropologie et contemporanéité (Éditions Pétra 2018), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo.

Vincenzo Matera is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Milan, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, Italy. He is also a professor at USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana). He is co-editor of Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2021), author of the book Antropologia contemporanea (Laterza 2017), and editor of the special issue De-constructing the Field, Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo online, XVI (2013), 15 (2)

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Histories of Anthropology

  • Editors: Gabriella D'Agostino, Vincenzo Matera

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21258-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21257-4Published: 23 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21260-4Published: 10 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21258-1Published: 22 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 676

  • Topics: Anthropology, Social Anthropology

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