About the Author:
Christoph Wulf is professor of anthropology and philosophy of education and director and cofounder of the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of over one hundred books and has been translated extensively in numerous languages.
Review:
“This is an extremely ambitious project that should stimulate both reflection on and engagement with the discipline. . . . Highly recommended.”
(F. W. Gleach Choice)
“Anthropology ambitiously argues for the contemporary viability of a general anthropology in the spirit of the purpose that gave rise to the discipline in the nineteenth century. Such works are very rare indeed in anthropology today, yet they are much needed, since the question of ‘what is anthropology beyond ethnography?’ is very much alive. Christoph Wulf’s book is a spirited and informed response to that question. It works through several important strains of European intellectual history that are key in the formation of anthropology about which most North American anthropologists are likely to know little.” (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)
“Synthesizing biological anthropology, philosophy, the history of mentalités, cultural anthropology, and hundreds of studies of families and schooling by his own lab, Christoph Wulf invites us to think in fresh ways about human bodies, performance and gesture, everyday rituals, and how we learn. This tour de force is four-fields anthropology as it’s never before been imagined in the United States.” (Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, University of California, Los Angeles)
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.