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Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Notes on the Contributors * Introduction: the Dislocation of the Human; E. Fudge, R. Gilbert, S.J. Wiseman * Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Budé, and the Poverty of Philology; A. Stewart * Animal Passions and Human Science: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness in Early Modern Europe and the New World; B. Cummings * Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: "Plausibility" in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy; M. Healy * Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre; * J. Sanders * Calling Creatures By Their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man; E. Fudge * Cartographic Arrest: Harvey, Raleigh, Drayton and the Mapping of Sense; S. Speed * "The Doubtful Traveller": Mathematics, Metaphor, and the Cartographic Origins of the American Frontier; J. Edwards * Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites; R. Gilbert * "Forms Such as Never Were in Nature": The Renaissance Cyborg; J. Sawday * Bodies Without Souls; The Case of Peter the Wild Boy; M. Newton * Monstrous Perfectibility: Ape-Human Transformations in Hobbes, Bulwer, Rousseau; S. Wiseman * The Economy of Nymphomania: Luxury, Virtue, Sentiment and Desire in Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse; M. Peace * Index
Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Notes on the Contributors * Introduction: the Dislocation of the Human; E. Fudge, R. Gilbert, S.J. Wiseman * Humanity at a Price: Erasmus, Budé, and the Poverty of Philology; A. Stewart * Animal Passions and Human Science: Shame, Blushing and Nakedness inEarly Modern Europe and the New World; B. Cummings * Bodily Regimen and Fear of the Beast: "Plausibility" in Renaissance Domestic Tragedy; M. Healy * Midwifery and the New Science in the Seventeenth Century: Language, Print and the Theatre; * J. Sanders * Calling Creatures By Their True Names: Bacon, the New Science and the Beast in Man; E. Fudge * Cartographic Arrest: Harvey, Raleigh, Drayton and the Mapping of Sense; S. Speed * "The Doubtful Traveller": Mathematics, Metaphor, and the Cartographic Origins of the American Frontier; J. Edwards * Seeing and Knowing: Science, Pornography and Early Modern Hermaphrodites; R. Gilbert * "Forms Such as Never Were in Nature": The Renaissance Cyborg; J. Sawday * Bodies Without Souls; The Case of Peter the Wild Boy; M. Newton * Monstrous Perfectibility: Ape-Human Transformations in Hobbes, Bulwer, Rousseau; S. Wiseman * The Economy of Nymphomania: Luxury, Virtue, Sentiment and Desire in Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Discourse; M. Peace * Index
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Micheal Jewell
reviewed At the borders of the human on August 29, 2011
At the borders of the human
A Thinking Person's Guide to 50 Years of British Anthropology
I first began to study anthropology 57 years ago, arriving at university never having heard of the subject. I wound up as an anthropologist, but also something of an area specialist (South Asia). I never had pretensions to be a theorist, nor have I ever aspired to expertise in kinship studies. My training was under American anthropologists to be sure, but they encouraged us to read and think about British and French scholarship as well. I never, however, felt that any one of these three schools had all the answers. One needed to develop an understanding by reading, doing field work, and thinking for yourself. British anthropology, from 1922 to 1972, as covered in Kuper's book, took a harder line. You focussed on the issues laid down by the leading lights, you went to study in "the colonies", mainly Africa, and wrote within the doctrine---or you got nowhere. It was another age. The chief figures that dominated the field in Britain---Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard, Fortes, Gluckmann, and Leach---published any number of brilliant theoretical works, but allowed little deviation from the established topics. Functionalism (human behavior is guided by utilitarian or `functional' reasons) gave way to structuralism (analysis of socio-political structure--especially kinship--can explain human behavior/culture), then the field began to splinter a bit. The linguistic and psychological concerns of the Americans and more so the sociological and mythological analyses of the French (Durkheim, Mauss, Levi-Strauss) finally did influence the British anthropologists. The full story of the twists and turns of British anthropological theory await you in ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGY along with a good amount of personal detail about the main protagonists.
Kuper's book is not an easy read. It is academic, but clear. If you have no prior acquaintance with anthropology, this is definitely not the place to begin. However, if you are teaching Anthropology or if you wish a brilliant summary of the field's history in the UK, or if you just want to review your understanding of developments as I did, this book is well-worth reading.
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