Document Type

Article

Subject Area(s)

Anthropology

Abstract

Anthropological concepts, which have been taken out of context and applied without full understanding, have been misused by historians of colonial North America. Part of the difficulty is due to the normal hazards of incorporating the work of another field in one's own; and part is due to the reluctance of historians to employ monothematic explanations. This latter difficulty has led historians to favor those concepts of anthropology which are not easily measured.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2307/203027

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© Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1981, The MIT Press.

APA Citation

Adams, J. (1981). Consensus, Community, and Exoticism. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 12, 253–265. https://doi.org/10.2307/203027

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