This anthropologist (Dell Hymes)will represent one of the various schools of thought or approaches of the discipline. An intellectual genealogy is a kind of theoretical/intellectual descent reckoning for an individual. Your genealogy should begin with your selected anthropologist and work backwards from there. You should rely on the texts, Fifty key anthropologists or Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology for basic information. You will also need to consult and cite sources beyond the text.
Your genealogy should cover the following points: (i) the intellectual/theoretical lineage of the anthropologist the scholars that the anthropologist studied with and the universities where the person did his/her graduate work; (ii) information on the major publications and major contributions to the field of the anthropologist (such as key concepts, terms, approaches, methodologies, etc.); (iii) information on which school of thought or theoretical perspective this individual is associated with; (iv) the intellectual descent of the individual tracing the influences on the anthropologists thinking where possible; and, (v) the major problems the individual address in his/her scholarship.
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