Title History of Theory and Method in Anthropology Regna Darnell, University of Nebraska Press

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022] Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 315 pages) : illustrations Series Critical studies in the history of anthropology Book collections on Project MUSE Contents 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 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"-- Provided by publisher "Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. History of Theory and Method in Anthropology reveals the theory schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell's fifty-year career entails foundational writings in the four fields of the discipline: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Claude Levi-Strauss, Franz Boas, Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Wesley Powell, Frederica de Laguna, Dell Hymes, George Stocking Jr., and Anthony F. C. Wallace, as well as nineteenth-century Native language classifications, ethnography, ethnohistory, social psychology, structuralism, rationalism, biologism, mentalism, race science, human nature and cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, standpoint-based epistemology, collaborative research, and applied anthropology. History of Theory and Method in Anthropology is an essential volume for scholars and undergraduate and graduate students to enter into the history of the inductive theory schools and methodologies of the Americanist tradition and its legacies. "-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Anthropologie -- Amerique du Nord -- Methodologie Anthropologie -- Amerique du Nord -- Histoire Indians of North America -- Research -- History Anthropology -- North America -- Methodology Anthropology -- North America -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Indians of North America -- Research Anthropology -- Methodology Anthropology North America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2021058923 ISBN 9781496224163 1496232259 1496224167 9781496232250

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