Anthropology and some of its companions. Introduction : before the Boasians ; Historical inferences from ethnohistorical data : Boasian views ; The manufacture of linguistic structure ; Margaret Mead and the professional unpopularity of popularizers ; American anthropologists discover peasants ; The non-eclipse of Americanist anthropology during the 1930s and 1940s ; The pre-Freudian Georges Devereux, the post-Freudian Alfred Kroeber, and Mohave sexuality ; University of California, Berkeley, anthropology during the 1950s ; American anthropologists looking through Taiwan to see "traditional" China, 1950-1990 / with Keelung Hong -- Sociology's increasingly uneasy relations with anthropology. Introduction ; W. I. Thomas, behaviorist ethnologist ; The postmaturity of sociolinguistics : Edward Sapir and personality studies in the Chicago Department of Sociology ; The reception of anthropological work in American sociology, 1921-1951 ; The rights of research assistants and the rhetoric of political suppression : Morton Grodzins and the University of California Japanese-American evacuation and resettlement study ; Resistance to sociology at Berkeley ; Does editing core anthropology and sociology journals increase citations to the editor? ; Conclusion : doing history of anthropology.