ABSTRACT
Each for their own reasons, many anthropologists had become dissatisfied with the various schools of psychology by the 1960s. John Honigmann, in a 1959 review of "psychocultural" research, went so far as to pronounce that "culture and personality, in America at least, is supposed to be dead, presumably having lost its popularity in the fifties". Overtly drawing inspiration from two philosophers—Ryle and Suzanne Langer—he helped move symbols to the fore in anthropology and to rehabilitate them from the meanings assigned to them by Levi-Strauss and White. The body had curiously disappeared in cognitive anthropology, which replaced personality or character with the narrower concept of mind or cognition. Maybe no term has lodged itself in the contemporary anthropological psyche as thoroughly as "habitus," brought to scholarly attention by Pierre Bourdieu in his 1972 Outline of a Theory of Practice and reprised in his 1980 The Logic of Practice.
