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A study in historical and critical anthropology: The making of "The People of Puerto Rico".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A study in historical and critical anthropology: The making of "The People of Puerto Rico"./
Author:	Lauria-Perricelli, Antonio.
Description:	476 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-02, Section: A, page: 0588.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-02A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9121295

A study in historical and critical anthropology: The making of "The People of Puerto Rico".
Lauria-Perricelli, Antonio.

A study in historical and critical anthropology: The making of "The People of Puerto Rico". - 476 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-02, Section: A, page: 0588.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New School for Social Research, 1989.

The object of this study is a particular moment in the history of social research on Puerto Rico: the University of Puerto Rico's Social Anthropology Project, directed by Julian Steward in 1947-49, whose major multi-authored product, The People of Puerto Rico, (1956) became a fundamental text in Puerto Rican social anthropology, and the anthropology of nationalities. It occupies an important, ambivalent, position in materialist traditions in U.S. anthropology. The project's history condenses theoretical, economic, political and ideological debates, involving interests and determinations extending beyond the academy to fundamental social forces and contradictions.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

A study in historical and critical anthropology: The making of "The People of Puerto Rico".
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520 $a The object of this study is a particular moment in the history of social research on Puerto Rico: the University of Puerto Rico's Social Anthropology Project, directed by Julian Steward in 1947-49, whose major multi-authored product, The People of Puerto Rico, (1956) became a fundamental text in Puerto Rican social anthropology, and the anthropology of nationalities. It occupies an important, ambivalent, position in materialist traditions in U.S. anthropology. The project's history condenses theoretical, economic, political and ideological debates, involving interests and determinations extending beyond the academy to fundamental social forces and contradictions.
520 $a This study adopts an ethnological approach to anthropological practice. It summarizes the project's background: the relevant political, economic, social and intellectual trends in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. It analyzes the designs of the project's sponsors, describes the image of Puerto Rico appearing in the various publications, and examines in detail how the categories of that representation were constructed. A comprehensive critique appraises the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological discourse of the project as a contradictory unity, examining its ethnological, political, and ideological dimensions.
520 $a The critique scrutinizes: the models of causal relationship and creativity in culture; the categories employed to analyze political economy; social structure and class; the complex sociospatial imagery used to represent the social whole; the explanations of religion, ideology, consciousness, class action and political representation, and the class-nation-culture relationship. The result was a sophisticated intellectual product whose non-dialectical interpretation of social transformation emphasized linear objective trends, which depicted colonial realities while obscuring underlying dynamics and the possibilities of transformation.
520 $a The dissertation closes by situating The People of Puerto Rico in the development of studies of Puerto Ricans, of anthropological theory, and in the contemporaneous contradictory relationship between U.S. anthropological practice and imperial institutions. In the project's discourse, the interplay between concepts/methods derived from Marxist and non-Marxist trends, the tension between a preferred utilitarian-rational mode of explanation and secondary recourse to the culture-psychology relation, mark struggles with the dilemmas of economistic thought. Enmeshed in external political and internal conceptual constraints, this contradictory image of an exploited people also presented an alternative to the dominant trends in then-emergent universalistic theories of social/cultural change without, however, superseding them.
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