Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility (History of Anthropology)

Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, L vi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition.