History of Anthropology

Kuklick, Henrika

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“…“Avoid presentism” could almost be called rule one of the historiography of anthropology. Like many rules, though, it is understood as one to be broken: it is plainly impossible for a scholar working in the present to avoid all traces of presentism (Kuklick , 76).…”

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“…Back when Stocking wrote his 1965 editorial, he did not foresee that anthropologists would be his most important readership, that practitioners rather than historians would form the main audience for his work (but see Kuklick , 67, 69, 89). But just a couple years later, he was hired away from the Berkeley Department of History by Chicago's Department of Anthropology .…”

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“…Nor was Stocking alone in such work. There is now a large library of richly detailed, historicist history of anthropology (Kuklick ). But writing such history once served a larger polemical and political purpose—a paradoxically presentist one of demonstrating its value as against teleological simplifications—that in anthropology has been amply achieved.…”

Section: The Changing Meaning Of Rejecting Presentism; or Presentismmentioning

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“…In today's anthropology, there is little risk of becoming blind to the shortcomings and flaws of our disciplinary forebears. Skepticism regarding narratives of heroic discovery runs wide and deep, and, far from idealizing disciplinary founders and past progress, most students come to the field already knowing that anthropology's past was corrupted by racism, sexism, and coloniality (Kuklick , 72). So the challenge now is to give readers reason to think about anthropological work done in the past with a measure of generosity.…”

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“…Recently, these debates have also extended to other national contexts, illustrating a more pervasive and generalized acceptance of racial thinking among interwar anthropologists than previously assumed (Kuklick 2008). In Central and Southeastern Europe, for instance, these conceptual mutations were commonly adaptations of dominant Western methodologies, but local anthropologists did not lack originality altogether.…”

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Although research on the history of physical anthropology in Central and Southeastern Europe has increased significantly since the 1990s the impact race had on the discipline's conceptual maturity has yet to be fully addressed. Once physical anthropology is recognized as having preserved inter-war racial tropes within scientific discourses about national communities, new insights on how nationalism developed during the 1970s and 1980s will emerge, both in countries belonging to the communist East-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, and in those belonging to the West-Austria and Greece. By looking at the relationship between race and physical anthropology in these countries after 1945 it becomes clear what enabled the recurrent themes of ethnic primordiality, racial continuity, and de-nationalizing of ethnic minorities not only to flourish during the 1980s but also to re-emerge overtly during political changes characterizing the last two decades.Keywords: communism, nationalism, ethnic identity, physical anthropology, race That the relationship between race and physical anthropology has been fashioned differently by various cultural and political traditions has long been discussed (e.g., Calcagno 2003). One must, however, be constantly alert to the frequency with which race has been effecting anthropological discourses, past and present (Glasgow 2009;Gould 1981). As Rachel Caspari pertinently noted " [t]he race concept may be rejected by anthropology but its underlying racial thinking persists" (2003: 74).During the first half of the twentieth century most anthropological research projects and discourses were dominated by an interest in race. As national politics-predominantly in Europeincreasingly came to rely on racial theories about the national community, its dominant physical type, and the preservation of its specific racial characteristics, physical anthropology attempted to furnish the necessary evidence for the notion that nations too were racially and hierarchically organized. In doing so, physical anthropology developed both scientifically and politically. This pro cess of appropriation also caused, on occasions, physical anthropologists to convey an overtly nationalist or even racist message, with

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