| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory. By Virginia Kerns. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xiv + 414 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

This intellectual history is essential for anyone who studies the indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. Many students, however, know Steward not for his Great Basin ethnographic work, but because he was a key player in anthropology's mid-twentieth century renewal of interest in general theory and the evolution of culture. As the architect of cultural ecology, Steward was a conduit for the descriptive, empirical, and historicist threads of his teachers Kroeber and Lowie, even as he charted a distinctly new path. Virginia Kerns's book is thus relevant to those interested in the history of anthropology and the social sciences.

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