Historicizing theories, identities, and nations / edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach.

Includes bibliographical references.

Franz Boaz as theorist : a mentalist paradigm for the study of mind, body, environment, and culture / Regna Darnell -- "We are also one in our concept of freedom": the Dewey-Boas correspondence and the invention of postmodern bourgeois liberalism / Michael E. Harkin -- What would Franz Boas have thought about 9/11? / Michael E. Harkin -- Boas and the young intellectuals: exploring the American context of Anthroplogy and modern life / David W. Dinwoodie -- Ruth Benedict: synergy, Maslow, and Hitler / Frank A. Salamone -- Continuity and dislocations: A.I. Hallowell's physical anthropology / James M. Nyce and Evelyn J. Bowers -- An epistemological shift in the history of anthropology: the linguistic turn / Robert C. Ulin -- Westermarck and the diverse roots of relativism / Andrew P. Lyons -- Heritage gatherers: peasant-mania ethnography and pre-World War I national awakeners of Ukraine / Olga Glinskii -- Adopting Western methods to understand one's own culture: social and cultural studies by Vietnamese scholars of the French colonial era / Nguyen Phuong Ngoc ; translation by Helene Tammik -- Life in Hanoi in the state subside period: questions raised in social criticism and social reminiscences / Nguyen van Huy -- Between ethnos and nation: genealogies of Dân Tộc in Vietnamese contexts / Bradley Camp Davis -- Arthur Nole (1940-2015): Tahltan elder, Raconteur, and friend / Thomas McIlwraith.