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This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North Americanist anthropology. Regna Darnell’s fifty-year career brings unsurpassed interpretations, both historicist and presentist, of the discipline’s legacy in North America.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Editorial Method
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. What Is History? An Anthropologist’s Eye View
2. Applied Anthropology: Disciplinary Oxymoron?
3. The Anthropological Concept of Culture at the End of the Boasian Century
4. Calibrating Discourses across Cultures in Search of Common Ground
5. “Keeping the Faith”: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology
6. Anthropological Approaches to Human Nature, Cultural Relativism, and Ethnocentrism
7. Text, Symbol, and Tradition in Northwest Coast Ethnology from Franz Boas to Claude Lévi-Strauss
8. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: Boasian Theory at the Centennial of
The Mind of Primitive Man 9. Franz Boas as Theorist: A Mentalist Paradigm for the Study of Mind, Body, Environment, and Culture
10. The Powell Classification of American Indian Languages
11. The Revision of the Powell Classification
12. Désveaux, Two Traditions of Anthropology in Mirror: American Geologisms and French Biologism
13. Rationalism, the (Sapir-)Whorf Hypothesis, and Assassination by Anachronism
14. The Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss
15. Obituary for Frederica de Laguna (1906–2004)
16. Obituary for Dell Hathaway Hymes (1927–2009)
17. Obituary for George W. Stocking Jr. (1928–2013)
18. Review of
Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction, by George W. Stocking Jr.
19. Obituary for Anthony F. C. Wallace (1923–2015)
Index
About the author
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is the coeditor of
The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015), author of
The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America (Nebraska, 2021), and author or editor of many other works. Darnell is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the American Anthropological Association.
Summary
This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North Americanist anthropology. Regna Darnell's fifty-year career brings unsurpassed interpretations, both historicist and presentist, of the discipline's legacy in North America.
