George W. Stocking, Jr.
George W. Stocking, Jr., (born 1928) is an American scholar noted for his 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 a professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
History of Anthropology Newsletter
In 1973, in conjunction with Robert Bieder and Judith Modell, he founded the History of Anthropology Newsletter as "a medium of communication for active researchers in this area" providing "information as to archival holdings, bibliographic aids, research in progress, recent publications, and so on."
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
Further reading
- 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
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American historian of anthropology |
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