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Informationen zum Autor Regna Darnell is the Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001); coeditor of Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual-Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015); and general editor of the multivolume series, the Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997). Klappentext Regna Darnell is the Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001); coeditor of Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual¿Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015); and general editor of the multivolume series, the Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan¿s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997). Zusammenfassung Showcases geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have presented their methods and theories to the public and in general to a variety of audiences. Essays showcase the research and personalities of Alexander Goldenweiser! Robert Lowie! Harlan I. Smith! Fustel de Coulanges! Edmund Leach! Carl Withers! and Margaret Mead! among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsEditors’ Introduction1. The Falling-Out between Alexander Goldenweiser and Robert Lowie: Two Personalities, Two Visions of AnthropologySergei Kan2. Forms of Relatedness: Harlan Smith and the Taxonomic MethodDorothee Schreiber3. Echoes of the Class Struggle in France: Exoticism, Religion, and Politics in Fustel de Coulanges’s The Ancient CityRobert Launay4. “I Have Not Advanced a Single Theory”: Mayan Ruins, Popular Culture, and Academic Authority in 19th-Century AmericaFernando Armstrong-Fumero5. Edmund Leach and the Rise of Cultural Polyvocality: A Case Study from the Ulúa Valley, HondurasKathryn M. Hudson6. Anthropology in CubaLeif Korsbaek and Marcela Barrios Luna7. An Unfinished Ethnography: Carl Withers’s Cuban Fieldwork and the Book That Never WasJorge L. Giovannetti8. Reading “The Redbook Columns”Susan R. TrencherContributors...
