Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility

Jean M. Humez offers a biographical overview based on extensive new research and a compilation of the complete texts of the stories Harriet Tubman told about her life - a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources.

Author: George W. Stocking
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 12/23/2005
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.01w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780299123642

About the Author
George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the History of Anthropology series published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the author of After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951; Victorian Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; and The Ethnographer s Magic. In 1993, he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute."