George W. Stocking, Jr.

(PhD, U Pennsylvania 1960) Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and in the Committee on Conceptual Foundations of Science, conducts research on the history of anthropology, focusing recently on anthropology in the United States during the post-World War II period. (Retired 6/00; still teaching)
email: g-stocking@uchicago.edu

Publications:

1987 Victorian Anthropology. New York: Free Press.

1991 (Editor) Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge. History of Anthropology. Vol. 7. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

1992 The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

1995 After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951.

1995 Delimiting Anthropology: Historical reflections on the boundaries of a boundless discipline. Social Research. 62(4):933-966.

1996 (Editor) Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition. History of Anthropology. Vol. 8. Madison: U Wisconsin Press.

2000 'Do Good Young Man': Sol Tax and the World Mission of Liberal Democratic Anthropology. History of Anthropology. Vol. 9. Madison: U Wisconsin Press, 171-264.

2001 Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. Madison: U. Wisconsin Press.

2004 A.I. Hallowell's Boasian Evolutionism: Human Ir/Rationality in Cross-Cultural, Evolutionary and Personal Context. In R. Handler, ed., Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology. U Wisconsin Press, pp. 196-260.

2004 Unfinished Business: Robert Gelston Armstrong, the F.B.I. and the History of Anthropology at Chicago and in Nigeria. History of Anthropology. Vol. 11. Madison: U Wisconsin Press (in press).