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EDUCATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
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EDUCATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited by GEORGE D. SPINDLER
Papers from participants in the June 9-14, 1954 Conference sponsored by the School of Education and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Stanford University and the American Anthropological Association.
The opinions, concepts, and hypotheses expressed and developed in Education and Anthropology represent a new fusion between two fields of study. Each is concerned with a special aspect of the development of man; in the main, each has hitherto approached its goals independently of the other. In the conference from which this book stems, twenty-two outstanding anthropologists and educators met to pool their thinking for mutual benefit in the two fields.
Their intent was to explore ways in which understanding of social pressures and cultural patterns can help educators to understand the role of education in the cultural process and to function effectively in a society where values, beliefs, and attitudes are changing rapidly.
The topics discussed include the history of relations between education and anthropology; the school in the community context; ways in which educational goals are defeated by conflicts between cultural ideals and action; different types of communication and teacher-student relations; ways of developing intercultural understanding through education; differences between educational needs and cultural forces in the childhood and adolescent years; the relationships between anthropological and educational theory and philosophy; methods for the study of school systems in various social environments; and the dilemma of the educator in the South, where segregation has strong social and political support but has been declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court decision. Papers on each topic, written by authorities in the respective fields, were distributed before the conference as the basis for interchange of ideas. The book includes both the papers and transcripts of the ensuing discussions, edited by Dr. Spindler, together with an overview summary by Margaret Mead, one of America's leading anthropologists with an intense and long-term interest in education.
Research and application already accomplished are reviewed incidentally to critical analysis of projected developments of education and anthropology. Specialists in education evaluate, modify, and reformulate the approaches of the anthropologists in the light of their professional experience; anthropologists apply their concepts, methods, data, and point of view to the educative process in its broadest sense.
The result of such interdisciplinary collaboration is a fully co-operative product, filled with new concepts, hypotheses, and approaches. In the discussion of the effects of racial desegregation in Southern schools, practical suggestions show what kinds of data and ideas the anthropologists could organize to present to educators faced with the task of implementing the Supreme Court decision-a "field problem" of considerable importance.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work:
Title: Education and Anthropology Editor: George D. Spindler
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1955 ISBN: 080473822X
Authors of papers by: L. James Quillen, George D. Spindler, Bernard J. Siegel, John Gillen, Solon T. Kimball, Cora DuBois, C.W.M. Hart, Dorothy Lee, Jules Henry, and Theodore Brameld
Commentaries and discussions by the above and: Felix M. Keesing, Robert N. Bush, Hilda Taba, Lawrence K. Frank, William E. Martin, Margaret Mead, Fannie R. Shaftel, Paul R. Hanna, Arthur P. Coladarci, William H. Cowley, Lawrence G. Thomas, and Alfred L. Kroeber
Indian & White : Self-Image and Interaction in a Canadian Plains Community
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Writing about a small band of Cree Indians living in western Canada, the author analyzes their complex relations with the White townspeople and ranchers living around them. Each group is remarkably homogeneous, and each feels moral superiority over the other, the Indians despite the general societal view of White superiority and Indian “profaneness.” How and why an enduring equilibrium involving little overt conflict has been established is explained in terms of symbolic interaction. The author shows how certain cultural values, Indian and White, are not only guidelines and goals of behavior but also symbolic means of presenting, evaluating, and defining the self.
After a discussion of the main concepts of symbolic interactionism, the author describes the community, the aboriginal Indian way of life, and the historical events that attended White settlement of the area. Detailed descriptions of the day-to-day interaction between Indians and Whites are then considered: the rules of etiquette and personal comportment, how the Indians are seen by Whites as breaking these rules, and the various adaptive strategies that the Indians have adopted in dealing with White reactions to their “profaneness.” A final chapter discusses the usefulness of symbolic interaction in understanding the process of acculturation.
Niels Winther Braroe is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
"A well-done and interesting study which focuses on a variety of questions that are usually ignored when white researchers attempt to describe Amerindians."--Gerd Schroeter, "The Journal of Ethnic Studies." (Anthropology)
this is a reproduction edition from the scanned edition below:
Indian & white: self-image and interaction in a Canadian Plains community
By Niels Winther Braroe
Edition: illustrated
Published by Stanford University Press, 1975
ISBN 0804708770, 9780804708777
205 pages
A Problem and a Wedge 3
symbolic interactionism , dramaturgical perspective , Sun Dance
The Present 38
Sun Dance , Cree , saddle clubs
Wild Red Indians 67
Plains Cree , Hudson's Bay Company , Fort Whoop-up
SelfSacrifice 87
nonperson , Tom crossed , Antelope
Covering 121
namegiver , Noble Savage , cross-cousin
Indian Givers 142
White , Suggs , Deersleep
Small Gains 157
Aleuts , subcommunity , acculturation
Interpretations 176
Aleuts , Hutterite , Brahmin
Index 201
Barker , environment , Behavior
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