The history of anthropology : a critical window on the discipline in North America /
Darnell, Regna,
The history of anthropology : a critical window on the discipline in North America / Regna Darnell. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021. - xxxiv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell's fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology's four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropology, the development of American folklore scholarship, theories of Indigenous languages, Southwest ethnographic research, Indigenous ceremonialism, text traditions, and anthropology's forays into contemporary public intellectual debates.The History of Anthropology is the essential volume for scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students to enter into the history of the Americanist tradition and its legacies, alternating historicism and presentism to contextualize anthropology's historical and contemporary relevance and legacies. "--
9781496228147
2021015793
Anthropology--History.--North America
Indians of North America--Research--History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
GN17.3.N7 / D369 2021
301.097
The history of anthropology : a critical window on the discipline in North America / Regna Darnell. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021. - xxxiv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell's fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology's four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropology, the development of American folklore scholarship, theories of Indigenous languages, Southwest ethnographic research, Indigenous ceremonialism, text traditions, and anthropology's forays into contemporary public intellectual debates.The History of Anthropology is the essential volume for scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students to enter into the history of the Americanist tradition and its legacies, alternating historicism and presentism to contextualize anthropology's historical and contemporary relevance and legacies. "--
9781496228147
2021015793
Anthropology--History.--North America
Indians of North America--Research--History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
GN17.3.N7 / D369 2021
301.097