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A recent attempt to place the name of Clark Wissler in a central position in the history of anthropology ignores his blatant racism. Wissler's racism was evident not only in scholarly and popular circles, but, as well, was employed by the United States government to give ‘scientific’ status to its Immigration Act of 1924. The Act favoured the inflow of Northwest Europeans at the expense of Eastern European Jews and other groups who had been immigrating in massive numbers, and whose presence had become increasingly unwelcome. It was used by the Nazi propaganda machine to justify German anti‐Semitism in 1933 and thereafter, and by the United States Department of State to turn away the eventual victims of Nazi genocide. Wissler thus provides a profound scholarly and human contrast to Franz Boas, who publicly deplored racism and immigration restriction. Boas' stand as a ‘citizen‐scientist’ partly accounts for his under‐evaluation by later anthropologists, most recently by Derek Freeman in hisMargaret M

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1985.tb01268.x

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年代:1985

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1985.tb01269.x

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年代:1985

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We present the text of the ribald song sung during the Skyrocket Festival of Northeast Thailand, and discuss the implications of the text as it relates to overt and covert functions of this festival. Contrary to Tambiah and other writers, we conclude that the festival is a complex, multifunctional one in which the crudity of the song and other related behaviour plays a central part.

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1985.tb01270.x

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Indifference to events which may actually have taken place between the Dreamtime and European contact is commonly held to be a salient feature of traditional Aboriginal thought. This contention contains a significant element of truth but it may have been exaggerated by some anthropologists. Structural‐functionalist emphases on myth as charter led not only to the rejection of historical interpretations of Aboriginal myths which were ill‐considered and naïve, but also to an excessive neglect of potentially fruitful attempts to extract from myths clues about post‐Dreamtime experiences. This neglect has unduly strengthened the view that Aboriginal thought is entirelysui generisand that its supposed indifference to human history is an inescapable cultural attribute of Aboriginality. A sketch is offered for a reappraisal of the significance of Aboriginal myths for Aboriginal h

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1985.tb01271.x

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In the April 1984Mankindwe published a paper by S. J. Thiele entitled `Anti‐intellectualism and the “Aboriginal Problem”: Colin Tatz and the “Self Determination” Approach‘ (Vol. 14:165–178). In December 1984 a reply from Colin Tatz appeared (Mankind14:401–3). We asked a number of specialists in Aboriginal studies to comment on the views expressed in these two contributions: the five responses received appear in the following pages. Thiele and Tatz have added their ref

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1985.tb01272.x

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Book reviewed in this article:The Human Primate. By R. E. PassinghamEthology. By Robert A. HindeThe Monkey Puzzle, A Family Tree. By John Gribbin&Jeremy CherfasMan, the Tottering Biped. The Evolution of his Posture, Poise and Skill. By Phillip V. TobiasParadoxes of Evolution in Recent Man. By D. F. RobertsRaymond Arthur Dart: A Pictorial Profile. Professor Dart's Discovery of ‘The Missing Link’. By Frances WheelhouseDarwin. By Wilma GeorgeThe Ethnography of Cannibalism. Edited by Paula Brown and Donald TuzinMagicians of Manumanua: Living Myth in Kalauna. By Michael W. YoungSound and Sentiment. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. By Steven FeldRituals of Manhood. Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea. Edited by Gilbert H. HerdtWays of Exchange: The Enga Tee of Papua New Guinea. By D. K. FeilYena: Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society. By Ross BowdenThe Torres Strait Collections of A. C. Haddon: A Descriptive Catalogue. By David R. MooreThe Great Museum. The Re‐presentation of History. By Donald HorneHunter‐Gatherer Economy in Prehistory. A European Perspective. Edited by Geoff Bailey1,000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand. By Helen Leach. A. H.&A. W. Reed, WellingtonThe Prehistory of New Zealand. By Janet DavidsonAustralia, The first twelve years. By Peter Taylor. George, Allen&UnwinThe Discovery of Australia. The Charts&Maps of the Navigators&Explorers. By T. M. PerryThe Secret Discovery of Australia. Portuguese ventures 250 years before Captain Cook. By Kenneth Gordon McIntyreAboriginal Sites, Rights and Resource Development. Edited by R. M. BerndtResource Development and the future of Australian Society. Edited by Stuart Harris and Geoff TaylorPower, Privilege and Prestige. Occupations in Australia. By Ann DanielAustralian Society: Introductory Essays. Fourth Edition. Edited by Sol. Encel and Lois BrysonEclipse of Equality. Social Stratification in New Zealand. By David G. Pearson and David C. ThornsIndians in a White Australia: An Account of Race, Class and Indian Immigration to Eastern Australia. By Marie M. de LepervancheGirmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians. By Brij V. LalWomen's Work and Women's Roles: Economics and Everyday Life in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Edited by Lenore MandersonA Celebration of Demons. Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. By Bruce KapfererCelebration. Studies in Festivity and Ritual. Edited by Victor TurnerThe Language of Easter Island. Its Development and Eastern Polynesian Relationships. By Robert Langdon and Darrell TryonThe Shaping of Man: Philosophical Aspects of Sociobiology. By Roger Trigg. Basil BlackwellThe Ape's Reflexion. By Adrian Desmond. Blond and BriggsOn Becoming Human. A Model of the Transition from Ape to Human and the Reconstruction of Early Social Life. By Nancy Makepeace TannerMan, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution. By Peter J. WilsonCurrent Problems in Sociobiology. Edited by King's College Sociobiology Group4 Anthropologists: An American Science in its Early Years. By Joan MarkRace, Language and Culture. By Franz BoasA Franz Boas Reader. The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883–1911. Edited by George W

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1985.tb01273.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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