Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality

267 Pages·1986·19.2 MB·English

by  George W. Stocking

Malinowski, Rivers,
Benedict and Others
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 1
Observers Observed
Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Volume 2
Functionalism Historicized
Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 3
Objects and Others
Essays on Museums and Material Culture
Volume 4
Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others
Essays on Culture and Personality
Malinowski, Rivers,
Benedict and Others
ESSAYS ON CULTURE
AND PERSONALITY
Edited by
George W. Stocking, Jr.
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 4
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Main emry under title:
Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and others.
(History of amhropology; v. 4)
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Personality and culture. 2. Ethnopsychology
History. I. Stocking, George W., 1928-
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HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
EDITOR
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
EDITORIAL BOARD
Talal Asad
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Hull
James Boon
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
James Clifford
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Donna Haraway
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Curtis Hinsley
Department of History, Colgate University
Dell Hymes
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Henrika Kuklick
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Trigger
Department of Anthropology, McGill University
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Contents
ESSAYS ON CULTURE AND PERSONALITY
3
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE SCIENCE OF THE IRRATIONAL:
MALINOWSKI'S ENCOUNTER WITH FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
George W. Stocking, Jr.
13
UNCONVENTIONAL CHARACTER AND DISCIPLINARY CONVENTION:
JOHN LAYARD, JUNGIAN AND ANTHROPOLOGIST
Jeremy MacClancy
50
ABRAM KARDINER AND THE NEO-FREUDIAN ALTERNATIVE
IN CULTURE AND PERSONALITY
William C. Manson
72
MELVILLE HERSKOVITS AND THE SEARCH FOR AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE
Walter Jackson
95
VIGOROUS MALE AND ASPIRING FEMALE:
POETRY, PERSONALITY, AND CULTURE
IN EDWARD SAPIR AND RUTH BENEDICT
Richard Handler
127
PERSONALITY AND CULTURE:
THE FATE OF THE SAPIRIAN ALTERNATIVE
Regna Darnell
156
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viii CONTENTS
SCIENCE, DEMOCRACY, AND ETHICS:
MOBILIZING CULTURE AND PERSONALITY FOR WORLD WAR II
Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
184
BETWEEN-THE-WARS BALI: REREADING THE RELICS
Ja mes A. Boon
218
INDEX
247
Malinowski, Rivers,
Benedict and Others