"Papers ... contributed to a 9th ICAES session ... current problems of the profession in historical perspectives."
Contents:
Introduction / Jacob Gruber -- Notes on inquiries in anthropology : a bibliographic essay / Don D. Fowler -- The history of ethnographic film / Emilie de Brigard -- Scotland as the model of mankind : Lord Kames' philosophical view of civilization / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- Albert Gallatin and the survival of Enlightenment thought in nineteenth-century American anthropology / Robert E. Bieder -- E. George Squier and the mounds, 1845-1850 / Thomas G. Tax -- Bachofen and the concept of matrilineality / Stephen F. Heltzman -- Modern theoretical views of a Croatian ethnologist of the late nineteenth century (Antun Radić, 1868-1919) / Vitomir Belaj -- The history of physical anthropology in Hungary / János Nemeskéri -- The Magyarization of Hungarian ethnography, 1889-1919 / Michael Sozan -- The rise of social anthropology in India (1774-1972) : a historical appraisal / L.P. Vidyarthi -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist : the reconciliation of science and humanism / Judith Modell -- Typological realism in A.L. Kroeber's theory of culture / Timothy H.H. Thoresen
