George W. Stocking, Jr.
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George W. Stocking, Jr., is an American scholar noted for his exhaustive scholarship on the history of anthropology.
Trained in history and the humanities as well as anthropology, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of A. Irving Hallowell.
For a time he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley; he subsequently taught for a semester at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is currently a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
[edit] Selected works
- 1968 Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology. ISBN 0-226-77494-5
- 1987 Victorian Anthropology
- 1995 After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951
- 1996 Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition. ISBN 0-299-14554-9
[edit] Bibliography
- Darnell, Regna (2006) "Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology." In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 3-16. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- 1997 reviews by Thomas William Heyck [1] and Joan Vincent [2] on After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951
