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Native Canadian Anthropology and History: A Selected Bibliography (revised edition), by Shepard Krech III, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 212 pp. Reviewed by Bruce G. Miller, University of British Columbia Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the "trial communities" produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic ­­­material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.

An article discussing some of the problems encountered in attempting to use both historical & anthropol'al methods & concepts in res & academic teaching. An analysis of the diff methods & concepts employed by the historian & anthrop'st is made, with special attention to intensive field work analysis. Conclusions are that the historian may profitably use of some the theoretical concepts of the anthrop'ts in the analysis of historical data, but the anthrop'st is unlikely to be able to use historical data for purposes of statistical comparison with data collected by fieldwork methods, with the exception of some data drawn from census sources, owing to the qualitative rather than quantitative character of much historical data. Modified HA.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Visions of anthropology -- Precursors -- Changing perspectives on evolution -- Diffusionist and culture area theories -- Functionalism and structural-functionalism -- Action and process -- Marxist perspectives -- From relativism to cognitive science -- Structuralism, from linguistics to anthropology -- Poststructuralists and feminists -- Mavericks -- Interpretive approaches -- Postmodernism and Its aftermath -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: dates of birth and death -- Appendix 2: glossary.

"History and Theory in Anthropology surveys the historical contexts of the great debates in the discipline, tracing the genealogies of theories and schools of thought and considering the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture-area theories; functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centered theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints."--Jacket

Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise

Relationships between anthrop & history have varied signif'ly with diff anthrop'al trends & Sch's of thought, such as evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism or structuralism. Over the past decade, the methods of soc anthrop have been applied to the establishment of historiographic data for peoples whose traditional outlook did not include the idea of 'objective' history. Such anthropol'al work is helped by the use of auxiliary techniques & by the development of certain forms of historical consciousness in traditional societies. Yet the anthrop'st must put himself at the service of historiography & cannot take the place of the historian. HA.