Scenes from the High Desert

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252076350

JULIAN STEWARD'S LIFE AND THEORY

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By Virginia Kerns
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''The history of anthropology offers a unique opportunity to combine an interest in anthropological theory with the methods of ethnography and Karns' book succeeds remarkably well in demonstrating how this can be done... As the ethnographer forces us to look at Steward through her eyes, she often provokes or entices readers to make up their own mind about these matters, certainly if they happen to be anthropologists themselves. I think that this is one of the reasons why this book stands out from most of the run-of-the-mill 'intellectual biographes', which remain caught in the hermeneutics of self-referential thick description.'' Jan de Wolf, Utrecht University ''This richly evocative story of a fiercely original anthropologist lights up the generation of scholars who taught him, argued with him, and learned from him.'' Sidney Mintz, William L. Straus Jr. Professor Emeritus of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University ''A brilliant, exquisitely written account of the life of one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century.'' Rita Wright, author of Gender and Archaeology ''A work of consummate scholarship. Kerns's book is so effortlessly crafted and beautifully constructed that it has the quality often attributed to Inca walls -- you can't insert a knife blade between the stones.'' Robert L. Carneiro, author of The Muse of History and the Science of Culture

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