Anthropological Perspectives on National Character

E. Adamson Hoebel
Additional contact information
E. Adamson Hoebel: University of Minnesota

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1967, vol. 370, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Anthropological interest in the field of national character was stimulated by World War II and motivated by a desire to improve transnational understanding. Since 1956, however, anthropologists have tended to withdraw from con tinuing work on national character, which they look upon as a specialized extension of personality and culture. The holistic emphasis of cultural anthropology is more comfortably ex pressed in the study of tribal societies than it is when applied to nations. In this decade, anthropologists have largely re verted to tribal studies or the application of testing instruments (borrowed from psychology) to limited segments of national populations.

Date: 1967
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271626737000102 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:370:y:1967:i:1:p:1-7

DOI: 10.1177/000271626737000102

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().