Donald McVicker

Frederick Starr

Popularizer of Anthropology, Public Intellectual, and Genuine Eccentric

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first biography of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University of Chicago. It presents a major reevaluation of Starr's place in anthropology, illuminates the consequences of the professionalization of anthropology, and yields a greater understanding of the United States as it moved into a position of global power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 877g
• ISBN-13: 9780759120976
• ISBN-10: 0759120978
• Artikelnr.: 35533436

Autorenporträt

Donald McVicker is professor emeritus of anthropology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and a research associate at The Field Museum in Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: "As the Branch is Bent"
Chapter 2: Becoming an Anthropologist (1884-1891)
Chapter 3: On to Chicago (1892-1895)
Chapter 4: The Notorious Professor Starr (1892-1900)
Chapter 5: The Public Intellectual at a Research Institution
Chapter 6: Exploring Collecting and Expeditioning (1894-1903)
Chapter 7: Ethnographic "Reality" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition:
Capturing Ethnographic "Reality" on Film (1904)
Chapter 8: Into the Heart of Darkness (1905-1906)
Chapter 9: The Congo Aftermath (1907)
Chapter 10: Academic Junket to the Phillipines
Chapter 11: From Manila to Mindanao and Return
Chapter 12: Home and in Hot Water Again
Chapter 13: Voyage to Japan (1909-1910)
Chapter 14: From the Orient to the Occident
Chapter 15: From Chicago to teh Mexican Centennial (1910)
Chapter 16: "Vacation" in Mexico (1911)
Chapter 17: Off to Japan and Korea (1911)
Chapter 18: Exploring Korea from West to East
Chapter 19: Liberia at Last (1912)
Chapter 20: The Death of Manuel
Chapter 21: Japan and Korea Yet Again (1913)
Chapter 22: Starr the Nipponophile
Chapter 23: The Frenetic Starr: Chicago and the West (1914)
Chapter 24: From the Mainstream to the Margins
Chapter 25: Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author