History of Theory and Method in Anthropology

Darnell, Regna (author.). Project Muse. (distributor.).

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"--

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ISBN: 9781496231307
ISBN: 1496231309
ISBN: 9781496232250
ISBN: 9781496224163
ISBN: 1496232259
ISBN: 1496224167
Physical Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

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General Note:	CatMonthString:june.22 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: 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 Levi-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. Desveaux, 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 Levi-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.
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