Background
Stocking,, George Ward was born on December 8, 1928 in Berlin. Came to the United States, 1929. Son of George Ward and Dorothé Amelia (Reichhard) Stocking.
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Praise for After Tylor. . . "This impressively solid, judicious, and authoritative text will surely serve the profession for a long time to come."-Michael Young, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences "The publication of After Tylor, taken together with Victorian Anthropology, represents a milestone in the historiography of the behavioural sciences."- Robert Ackerman, London Review of Books "After Tylor is thus an effort to reconstruct and understand modes of thought which-though hardly discontinuous-were still rather different from our own. In this, it is utterly and completely successful."-Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology "This is magnificent scholarship. Furthermore it proves that a discourse intended to complicate received ideas can also be eminently readable."-Michael Herzfeld, American Scientist "Formidable as its scope is, this account is also eminently readable. The layering of each character will ensure that it can be read at all levels of anthropological sophistication."-Marilyn Strathern, Times Higher Education Supplement "There are many reasons that George Stocking is generally recognized as the leading historian of anthropology. His ability to breathe life into the dead is not the least of them." -Henry Munson, Jr., Religion "Few scholarly books of this considerable length deserve to be read from cover to cover, but Stocking's After Tylor is surely one of them."-Tamara Kohn, Metascience A sequel to Victorian Anthropology, Stocking's widely acclaimed study of British anthropology and the Darwinian Revolution, After Tylor is the first comprehensive exploration of the intellectual transition that gave rise to modern British social anthropology.
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"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but Stocking's: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Delimiting Anthropology makes available sixteen essays from the influential career of George W. Stocking, Jr., the world’s preeminent historian of anthropology. The essays are grouped in four quartets, echoing the major phases of Stocking’s own research over four decades. In his introductory comments he places each essay in the context of his entire body of work. The first quartet focuses on the work of Franz Boas and the emergence of "Boasian Culturalism." In the second set of essays Stocking addresses the careers of three British "evolutionaries"Lord Kames; Sir E. B. Tylor; and Sir James G. Frazertracking the development of cultural evolutionary thought from its origins in the Scottish Enlightenment through its early twentieth-century afterglow in Frazer’s The Golden Bough. The third group of essays looks at institutions and national traditions, including British ethnography exemplified in the fieldwork manual Notes and Queries; the humanistic Parisian Société d’Ethnographie; the early tension at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe between aspiring local amateur anthropologists and professionals from Eastern universities; and the history of ethnographic museums in the European tradition. In closing, Stocking offers reflections on major tendencies in anthropology from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Stocking,, George Ward was born on December 8, 1928 in Berlin. Came to the United States, 1929. Son of George Ward and Dorothé Amelia (Reichhard) Stocking.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1960.
From instructor to associate professor history University California, Berkeley, 1960-1968. Associate professor anthropology and history University Chicago, 1968-1974, professor anthropology, 1974—2000, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service professor, since 1990, professor emeritus, since 2000, director Fishbein Center for History Science and Medicine, 1981-1992. Visiting professor University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1974, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1983, University Illinois, Urbana, 1999.
( "We have, at long last, a real historian with real hist...)
( Delimiting Anthropology makes available sixteen ess...)
(Praise for After Tylor. . . "This impressively solid, j...)
Active labor union and radical political activity, 1949-1956. Fellow American Anthropol. Association (Franz Boas award 1998), American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member Royal Anthropol. Institute (Huxley medal 1993), History Science Society.
Married Wilhelmina Davis, August 19, 1949 (divorced 1965). Children: Susan Hallowell, Rebecca, Rachel Louise, Melissa, Thomas Shepard. Married Carol Ann Bowman, September 29, 1968.