Download or read book Romantic Motives written by George W. Stocking and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989-12-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Lévi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition.