George W. Stocking

When they read what we write : the politics of ethnography

Arising from discussions about ethics and responsibility in anthropological fieldwork, these essays explore what happens when people who are the subjects of research, read or hear about what has been written about them. Problems arise from biased media reports, and trust can be lost.

The Santa Fe style in American anthropology: Regional interest, academic initiative, and philanthropic policy in the first two decades of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Inc.

During the 1920s the American Southwest, an area rich in ethnographic and archelogical resources, became an important focus of interest on the part of both eastern academic anthropologists and the Rockefeller philanthropies. Successfully coopting or overriding previously established regional anthropological interests, nationally oriented anthropologists were instrumental in establishing a Laboratory of Anthropology modelled in part on the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. When Rockefeller funding was terminated in the middle 1930s, the Laboratory was left to forage in the economic desert of the depression Southwest and was unable to find either adequate financial support or a clearly defined mission. In 1947, it was incorporated into the State Museum system, where it functions today as a coordinating center for archeological research in the Rio Grande Basin.

Presentism and Historicism Once Again: The History of British Anthropology as Intellectual and Personal History

anthropology. Such a framework can and must tolerate anything except the existence of that rival mode of universalism, which for many centuries asserted the validity of such non-relativist principles as objective knowledge, ‘natural’ social laws, and the psychic unity of mankind. The Victorians, as prominent practitioners of the rival mode, must necessarily fall foul of late-twentieth century cultural criticism. This explains why, despite all Stocking’s ‘historicizing’ endeavours, one is left with the impression that there is one rule for cannibals and wifestranglers, quite another for anthropological Victorians. (University of Oxford) Endnotes

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951.@@@The Expansive Moment: The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970.

Introduction 1. The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930-1939: social reform in the colonies 2. Training for the field: the sorcerers apprentices 3. Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red 4. Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard 5. Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others 6. The Oxford Group 7. Some achievements of anthropology in Africa 8. Personal contributions 9. Concluding remarks Appendices Notes List of references Index.

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951

Prologue - Tylor and the reformation of anthropology centre and periphery - armchair anthropology, missionary ethnography and evolutionary theory animism, totemism and christianity - a pair of heterodox Scottish evolutionists from the armchair to the field - the Darwinian zoologist as ethnographer the Frazerian moment - evolutionary anthropology in disarray the revival of diffusionist ethnology from fieldwork to functionalism -Malinowski and the emergence of British social anthropology from cultural psychology to social structure - Radcliffe-Brown and the delimitation of social anthropology anthropological institutions, colonial interests and the first cohorts of social anthropologists epilogue - moment and tradition in the history of British social anthropology.

Black Athena: Two views

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785–1985, by Martin Bemal, Free Association Books, 1987, 576 pages, hb £30, pb £15

Reflection and Reflexity in Ethnographic Fieldwork@@@Ethnigraphic Research: A Guide to General Conduct.@@@Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork.@@@Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience.

Purpose and Focus of this Book Participant Observation Rationale and Roles Planning the Project and Entering the Field Field Relations Observational Methods Interviewing Strategy and Tactics Recording, Indexing and Evaluating Interview Data Integrating Methods in Team Research Using History in Social Research Types of Applied Social Research Ethics in Field Research and Publication Focusing the Study and Analyzing the Data From Data Analysis to Reshaping Conceptual Schemes Scheme and Styles of Social Research