Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction (1981) Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Franz Boas Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Alfred L. Kroeber Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Paul Radin Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Bronislaw Malinowski Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Ruth Benedict Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Julian H. Steward Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Leslie A. White Chapter 10 Chapter 8: Robert Redfield Chapter 11 Chapter 9: Margaret Mead Chapter 12 Notes Chapter 13 References Chapter 14 Index

About the Author

Sydel Silverman is professor emerita at City University of New York and former president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Reviews

Totems and Teachersremains a clever and insightful look into the personalities and dynamics of American anthropologies.
*Reviews In Anthropologies, January 2009*

The project that the volume represents is an important one that is still in need of exploration and development.
*Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute*