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Indigenous visions : rediscovering the world of Franz Boas /

"In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blackhawk, Ned (Editor ), Wilner, Isaiah Lorado (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Colección:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Transformation masks : recollecting the Indigenous origins of global consciousness / Isaiah Lorado Wilner
  • 2. Franz Boas in Africana philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon
  • 3. Expressive enlightenment : subjectivity and solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma / Ryan Carr
  • 4. "Culture" crosses the Atlantic : the German sources of The mind of primitive man / Harry Liebersohn
  • 5. Rediscovering the world of Franz Boas : anthropology, equality/diversity, and world peace / James Tully
  • 6. Of two minds about minding language in culture / Michael Silverstein
  • 7. Why white people love Franz Boas; or, The grammar of Indigenous dispossession / Audra Simpson
  • 8. Utter confusion and contradiction : Franz Boas and the problem of human complexion / Martha Hodes
  • 9. The death of William Jones : Indian, anthropologist, murder victim / Kiara M. Vigil
  • 10. Woman on the verge of a cultural breakdown : Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the racial privilege of Boasian relativism / Eve Dunbar
  • 11. "A new Indian intelligentsia" : Archie Phinney and the search for a radical Native American modernity / Benjamin Balthaser
  • 12. The river of salvation flows through Africa : Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the redemption of the culture concept / Sean Hanretta
  • 13. A two-headed thinker : Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the reinvention of Brazilian identity / Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke
  • 14. Seeing like an Inca : Julio C. Tello, Indigenous archaeology, and pre-Columbian trepanation in Peru / Christopher Heaney.