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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology /

"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 discip...

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Autor principal: Darnell, Regna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.