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Article: After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951.(Review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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- November 1, 2000
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GEORGE W STOCKING, JR., After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, xx + 570 p.
Wisconsin's decision to issue this book in paperback places it within reach of a broader audience of students and professionals. After Tylor is the product of 25 years' study and reflection by George Stocking, who almost single-handedly created and legitimized the historiography of anthropological science. Some thirty years ago, Stocking's Race, Culture and Evolution re-interpreted Tylor and rehabilitated Boas. In a canonical essay in that volume, anthropologists were cautioned about the dangers of "presentism" in assessing ...