Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary exchanges, both past and present, which have engaged cultural anthropologists-and invites readers to continue the conversations.

Introduction: Anthropological Conversations across Disciplines
1-The Presence of the Past in Culture: Anthropology and History
Fieldwork in the Archives: Tackling the Methodology of History
The Presence of the Past: Anthropological History
The Presence of the Past: The Anthropology of History
Conclusion: The Presence of the Past: An Engaged Historical Anthropology
2-Space, Place, and Culture: Anthropology and Geography
Anthropology and Geography: Early Conversations
The Anthropology of Space and Place
Gendered Space and Feminist Geography
The New Anthropology of Landscape and the Environment
Conclusion: From the Etics of Region to the Emics of Space and Place
3-Writing Culture: Anthropology and Literature
Ethnography as Genre: Experimenting with Forms of Writing
The Literary Observer: Novelists with an Anthropological Eye
Conclusion: The Craft of Writing Anthropology
4-The Science in Culture: Anthropology and Biology
Biology and Culture in the Twentieth Century: From Boas to Sociobiology to Bioculturalism
New Directions in the Integration of Biology and Culture
Conclusion
5-The Individual and Culture: Anthropology and Psychology
Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Neo-Freudianism: Seeds of Interaction, Seeds of Cross-Disciplinarity
Stress, Trauma, and Meaning-Centered Psychology Anthropology
Conclusion: A Cross-Cultural Psychology
6-Culture and Population: Anthropology and Demography
Bridging the Divide: Methods, Concepts, and Epistemology
The Problems Explored by Anthropological Demographers
Conclusion: Toward Convergence and Cross-Disciplinarity?
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

Caroline B. Brettell is University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ruth Collins Altshuler Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute at Southern Methodist University. Her numerous publications include Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective 6E (co-edited with Carolyn Sargent); Crossing Borders/Constructing Boundaries; and Anthropology and Migration. She has served as president of the Social Science History Association as well as the Society for the Anthropology of Europe and on various review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health, among others.