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William Y. Adams

Auteur de The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology

19+ oeuvres 79 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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William Y. Adams was a student of Robert H. Lowie at the University of California, and is thus a second-generation Boasian. As a professor of anthropology he taught thirty-three different courses, and has published twenty-two books. He has done ethnological field work in the U.S. Southwest, where afficher plus he grew up, and archaeological fieldwork in both the Southwest and the Nile Valley. afficher moins

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Œuvres de William Y. Adams

Nubia: Corridor to Africa (1977) 16 exemplaires
Religion and Adaptation (2004) 2 exemplaires

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Adams, William Yewdale
Date de naissance
1927
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male

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This is an excellent work of intellectual history, tracing the great philosophical (and ideological) streams that have contributed to the American anthropological traditions. Adams covers Primitivism, Progressivism, Indianology, Natural Law and German Idealism as major "roots" in the making of anthropological thought. Looking at the discipline through these "meta-discourses" he is able to show how divergent and contradictory ways of seeing the world have been woven into the anthropological tapestry.… (plus d'informations)
 
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slgardiner | Jan 26, 2009 |

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Œuvres
19
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4
Membres
79
Popularité
#226,897
Évaluation
½ 4.5
Critiques
1
ISBN
27
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1

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