The Four Subfields: Anthropologists as Mythmakers Export

@article{citeulike:258031, abstract = {A survey of articles published in the American Anthropologist over a 100-year period indicates that substantive collaboration across anthropological subfields is largely a myth<img style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" align="BOTTOM" border="0" alt="" src="/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aaa/journals/entities/2014.gif"/>amounting toonly 311 of 3,264 articles surveyed (or 9.5 percent of the total). Working with the anthropological insights of Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Tylor, and Claude Levi-Strauss, this article considers why a myth of subf ield collaboration nonetheless exists within anthropology. This article concludes by calling for new forms of holism. [Keywords: American Anthropologist, subf ield collaboration, holism, public anthropology]}, author = {Borofsky, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {258031}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.463}, doi = {10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.463}, journal = {American Anthropologist}, keywords = {anthropology, history, holism, myth}, number = {2}, pages = {463--480}, posted-at = {2005-07-16 21:38:32}, priority = {0}, title = {The Four Subfields: Anthropologists as Mythmakers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.463}, volume = {104}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:258031 L3 - citeulike-article-id:258031 N2 - A survey of articles published in the American Anthropologist over a 100-year period indicates that substantive collaboration across anthropological subfields is largely a myth<img style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" align="BOTTOM" border="0" alt="" src="/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aaa/journals/entities/2014.gif"/>amounting toonly 311 of 3,264 articles surveyed (or 9.5 percent of the total). Working with the anthropological insights of Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Tylor, and Claude Levi-Strauss, this article considers why a myth of subf ield collaboration nonetheless exists within anthropology. This article concludes by calling for new forms of holism. [Keywords: American Anthropologist, subf ield collaboration, holism, public anthropology] IS - 2 JF - American Anthropologist EP - 480 TI - The Four Subfields: Anthropologists as Mythmakers VL - 104 SP - 463 KW - anthropology KW - history KW - holism KW - myth AU - Borofsky, Robert PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.463 ER -