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Regna Darnell
This first full-scale biography of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) does justice to the life and ideas of the most distinguished linguist of Boasian anthropology, who contributed substantially to the professionalization of…
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Offers an alternative vision of the development of anthropology in North America, one that emphasizes continuity rather than discontinuity from legendary founder Franz Boas to the present. This title highlights…
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…
This volume on the history of anthropology emphasizes schools of theory, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with North American Indigenous communities. Regna Darnell, a fifty-year veteran of the…
This volume contains all of Sapir’s professional publications, as well as all of his recorded lectures on the concept of culture and on the relationship of culture to the individual…
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The first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline.
Contributions from 25 scholars are brought together here to provide a comprehensive, accessible, state of the art appraisal of interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of anthropology, linguistics, and Native Studies.
Explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the US, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, including luminaries such as Franz Boas…
Contained in this volume are memorable glimpses of the 77 men and women who have led the American Anthropological Association during the past century.
American Anthropological Association
The 30 selections in this volume reflect the notable trends and accomplishments in American anthropology during the closing decades of the millennium.
Showcases geographic diversity by exploring how anthropologists have presented their methods and theories to the public and in general to a variety of audiences. Essays showcase the research and personalities…
Examines worldwide historical trends of anthropology ranging from the assertion that all British anthropology is a study of the Old Testament to the discovery of the untranslated shorthand notes of…
The Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning…
Examines the work and influence of Hans Sidonius Becker, Franz Boas, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Karl Popper, and Anthony F. C. Wallace, as well as anthropological perspectives on the 1964…
Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories explores the interplay of identities and scholarship through the history of anthropology, with a special section examining fieldwork predecessors and indigenous communities in…
Centering the Margins of Anthropology’s History circles around the conscious recognition of margins and suggests it is time to bring the margins to the center, both in terms of a…
The Social Life of Standards reveals how political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, applied, subverted, contested, and reassembled as local communities interact with standards created by external…
Presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858-1942). Boas was a passionate defender of academic freedom, rigorous scholarship…
Linna Muller-Wille
Papers of the Symposium on Unexpected Consequences of Economic Change in Circumpolar Regions at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Amsterdam, March 21 to 22…
