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"This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the social history of anthropology in the United States, examining the circumstances that gave rise to the discipline and illuminating the role of anthropology in the modern world. Thomas C. Patterson considers the shifting social and political-economic conditions in which anthropological knowledge has been produced and deployed, the appearance of practices focused on particular regions or groups, the place of anthropology in structures of power, and the role of the educator in forging, perpetuating and changing representations of past and contemporary peoples. The book addresses the negative reputation that anthropology took on as an offspring of imperialism and provides fascinating insight into the social history of America. In this second edition, the material has been revised and updated including a new chapter that covers anthropological theory and practice during the turmoil created by multiple ongoing crises at the beginning of the twentieth-first century. This is valuable reading for students and scholars interested in the origins, development and theory of anthropology"--

The language of change : motion in time -- Modern industrial capitalist society, 1820-1914 -- Imperialism and the national, colonial, and agrarian questions, 1890-1929 -- Capitalism in crisis and the search for social order, 1918-1945 -- The Cold War, decolonization, and the third world, 1945-1970 -- The world in crisis, 1970-2017

1. Living landscapes -- 2. The First Nations -- chapter 3. The Spanish colonial economy in Southern California -- chapter 4. Southern California in the wake of Mexico's War of Independence, 1822-1848 -- chapter 5. The American Empire and Southern California, 1848-early 1870s -- chapter 6. Land, railroads, and the rise of the Orange Empire, 1860-1930 -- chapter 7. The Orange Empire and its neighbors : a regional perspective, 1890-1945 -- chapter 8. War, real estate, and the rise of the Inland Empire, 1940-1978 -- chapter 9. From Inland Empire to Warehouse Empire, 1980-2014 -- chapter 10. Toward the historical political economy of a region.

▪ Abstract  The professionalization of archaeology in the late nineteenth century was linked to the growth of antiquities markets and the development of museums as institutions of education and social reproduction. Professional archaeologists moved into the universities in large numbers after World War II and then increasingly into the private sector after the mid-1970s. In the United States, archaeologists currently confront a highly segmented labor market with significant wage and benefits differentials, and increasing numbers face marginal employment. At the same time, descendant communities and government regulations are transforming the ways by which archaeologists have traditionally conducted their investigations.

ABSTRACTSThis essay asks why interpretations of pre‐Columbian history and state formation in Mexico and Peru are framed in different terms by archaeologists. While the differences are due in part to the empirical realities of the two civilizations, this essay explores how sociological considerations and theoretical orientations of archaeologists as they interpreted those empirical realities contributed to the construction of the interpretive differences.