University of Chicago Department of Anthropology
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"Anthropology at Chicago" by George W. Stocking, Jr.

Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine. October, 1979

Table of Contents

  1. The Savage and the Civilized
  2. The Aborginies of America
  3. The Australians as Paleolithic Men
  4. Anthropology at Haper's University
  5. The Self-Made Anthropologist
  6. The Lone Starr Trail
  7. Separating from Sociology
  8. Pedants and Potentates
  9. From Sapir to Radcliffe-Brown
  10. The Folk Culture of Yucatan
  11. Getting to Know Modern Man
  12. Rediscovering Illinois
  13. In the Aftermath of Radcliffe-Brown
  14. Chicago Anthropology in World War II
  15. A Program for Postwar Anthropology
  16. From Folk Societies to Great Traditions
  17. The Dilemmas of Utilitarian Anthropology
  18. Toward the Darwin Centennial
  19. From the Paleolithic to Palo Alto
  20. The Boom Years
  21. Untying the Sacred Bundle
  22. Setting the Modern Mold