The Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse
perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context,
with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical
approaches in teaching, learning, and doing anthropology. Critical,
comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all
aspects and subfields of anthropology are included. This ninth
volume of the series, Corridor Talk to Culture History showcases
geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have
presented their methods and theories to the public and in general
to a variety of audiences. Contributors examine interpretive and
methodological diversity within anthropological traditions often
viewed from the standpoint of professional consensus, the ways
anthropological relations cross disciplinary boundaries, and the
contrast between academic authority and public culture, which is
traced to the professionalization of anthropology and other social
sciences in the nineteenth century. Essays showcase the research
and personalities of Alexander Goldenweiser, Robert Lowie, Harlan
I. Smith, Fustel de Coulanges, Edmund Leach, Carl Withers, and
Margaret Mead, among others.