Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 315 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781496232250
,
9781496232243
Series Statement:
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Method -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. What Is History? -- 2. Applied Anthropology -- 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" -- 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 -- 9. Franz Boas as Theorist -- 10. The Powell Classification of American Indian Languages -- 11. The Revision of the Powell Classification -- 12. Désveaux, Two Traditions of Anthropology in Mirror -- 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496224163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496231307
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Darnell, Regna, 1943 - History of theory and method in anthropology Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022 ISBN 9781496224163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496231307
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Author information:
Darnell, Regna 1943-
