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Informationen zum Autor Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001). Michelle Hamilton is an associate professor and director of public history at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario. Robert L. A. Hancock is the LE,NONET Academic Coordinator in the Office of Indigenous Affairs and adjunct assistant professor in anthropology and environmental studies at the University of Victoria. Joshua Smith is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. Klappentext "This inaugural volume of The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858-1942). Few of Boas's intellectual progeny span the range of his disciplinary and public engagements. In his later career, Boas moved beyond Native American studies to become a public intellectual and advocate for social justice, particularly with reference to racism against African Americans and Jews and discrimination against women in science. He was a passionate defender of academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, and anthropology as a humane calling. The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1 examines Boas's stature as a public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography, and activism. The volume's contributors move across many of the disciplines within which Boas himself worked, bringing to bear their expertise in Native studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, folklore, ethnomusicology, museum studies, comparative literature, English, film studies, philosophy, and journalism. This volume demonstrates a contemporary urgency to reassessing Boas both within the field of anthropology and beyond. "-- Zusammenfassung Presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858-1942). Boas was a passionate defender of academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, and anthropology as a humane calling. This title examines Boas's stature as public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography, and activism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgments Historiographic Conundra: The Boasian Elephant in the Middle of Anthropology’s Room Regna DarnellPart 1. Theory and Interdisciplinary Scope1. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: Boasian Theory at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man Regna Darnell2. The Individual and Individuality in Franz Boas’s Anthropology and Philosophy Herbert S. Lewis3. The Police Dance: Dissemination in Boas’s Field Notes and Diaries, 1886–1894 Christopher Bracken4. Franz Boas and the Conditions of Literature J. Edward Chamberlin5. From Baffin Island to Boasian Induction: How Anthropology and Linguistics Got into Their Interlinear Groove Michael Silverstein6. The Boasian Legacy in Ethnomusicology: Cultural Relativism, Narrative Texts, Linguistic Structures, and the Role of Comparison Sean O’NeillPart 2. Ethnography7. Friends in This World: The Relationship of George Hunt and Franz Boas Isaiah Lorado Wilner8. The Ethnographic Legacy of Franz Boas and James Teit: The Thompson Indians of British Columbia Andrea LaforetPart 3. Activism9. Anthropological Activism and Boas’s Pacific Northwest Ethnology David W. Dinwoodie10. Franz Boas, Wilson Duff, and the Image of Anthropology in British Columbia Robert L. A. Hancock11. Cultural Persistence in the Age of “Hopelessness”: Phinney, Boas, and U.S. Indian Policy Joshua Smith12. Franz Boas’s Correspondence with German Friends and Colleagues in the Early 1930s Jürgen Langenkämper13. Franz Boas on War and Empire: The Making of a Public Intellectual Julia E. LissPart 4. The Archival Project14. A...
