Richard Handler (professor of anthropology, University of Virginia)

Review

"Four substantive, edgy essays are matched with George Stocking's tour de force depiction of an 'ordinary' midcentury anthropologist persecuted as a Communist by the FBI. The multiple avenues of exploration opened in this work will be traveled for some time to come." - Michael Lambek, University of Toronto"

Review

"A deeply considered reflection on a set of core dynamics in anthropology. Through the prism of seemingly peripheral figures like Robert Gelston Armstrong and ostensibly marginal sites like Iceland and the Andaman Islands, anthropology's center appears in a wholly new light."—Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Four substantive, edgy essays are matched with George Stocking's tour de force depiction of an 'ordinary' mid-century anthropologist persecuted as a Communist by the FBI. The multiple avenues of exploration opened in this work will be traveled for some time to come."—Michael Lambek, University of Toronto