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"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

"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 field, brings unsurpassed historicist and presentist interpretations of the discipline's legacy"-- Provided by publisher.

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

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INTRODUCTION

1. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist

2. The Professionalization of American Anthropology, 1879-1920

3. The Development of American Folklore Scholarship, 1880-1920

4. Daniel Brinton and the Professionalization of American Anthropology

5. Documenting Disciplinary History

6. Franz Boas's Legacy of 'Useful Knowledge': The APS Archives and the Future of Americanist Anthropology

7. Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual

8. Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and the Americanist Text Tradition

9. The Emergence of Edward Sapir's Mature Thought

10. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield's Central Algonquian, and Sapir's Distant Genetic Relationships

11. Camelot at Yale: The Construction and Dismantling of the Sapir Hypothesis, 1931-1939

12. Benedictine Visionings of Southwestern Cultural Diversity: Beyond Relativism

13. Benjamin Whorf and the Boasian Foundations of Contemporary Ethnolinguistics

14. Mary Haas and the First Yale School of Linguistics

15. Stanley Newman and the Sapir School of Linguistics

16. Hallowell's Bear Ceremonialism and the Emergence of Boasian Anthropology

17. Franz Boas and the Development of Physical Anthropology in North America

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Indians of North America > Research.

Indians of North America > Research > History.

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