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"that the development of theory is a social process, a product of life histories embedded in time and place, is a principle that most anthropologists take as axiomatic"
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About the Author
Sydel Silverman is professor emerita at City University of New York and former president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
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Totems and Teachersremains a clever and insightful look into the personalities and dynamics of American anthropologies. (Reviews In Anthropologies)
The project that the volume represents is an important one that is still in need of exploration and development. (Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute)
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0231050860
- ISBN 13 9780231050869
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages322
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