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George W. Stocking

George W. Stocking (1928–2013) was a historian of social anthropology, focused on anthropology’s own past, tracing the field of study’s development on two continents. Stocking was the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was the author of After Tylor, The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology, and Victorian Anthropology.

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