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The Histories of Anthropology Annual presents localized perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. This tenth volume of the series, Local Knowledge, Global Stage, 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 pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas. Other topics include archival research into the study of Vancouver Island's indigenous languages, explorations of the Christian notion of virgin births in Edwin Sidney Hartland's The Legend of Perseus, and the Canadian government's implementation of European-model farms as a way to undermine Native culture. In addition to Boas and Hartland, the essays explore the research and personalities of Susan Golla, Claude Levi-Strauss, and others.

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Author:   Frederic W. Gleach ,  Regna Darnell
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780803288102

ISBN 10:   0803288107
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   01 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Editors’ Introduction 1. Anthropologists and the Bible: The Marett Lecture, April 2012 Adam Kuper 2. Dead and Living Authorities in The Legend of Perseus: Animism and Christianity in the Evolutionist Archive Frederico D. Rosa 3. Anthropology in Portugal: The Case of the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (SPAE), 1918 Patrícia Ferraz de Matos 4. A View from the West: The Institute of Social Science and the Amazon Priscila Faulhaber 5. Scientific Diplomacy and the Establishment of an Australian Chair of Anthropology, 1914–25 Geoffrey Gray 6. The Saga of the L. H. Morgan Archive, or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet Ethnography Sergei A. Kan and Dmitry V. Arzyutov 7. “I Wrote All My Notes in Shorthand”: A First Glance into the Treasure Chest of Franz Boas’s Shorthand Field Notes Rainer Hatoum 8. Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on Ethnographic Practice in the Archive of Dr. Susan Golla Denise Nicole Green 9. The File Hills Farm Colony Legacy Cheyanne Desnomie Contributors

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Histories of Anthropology Annual has saved and transmitted many memorable episodes from the adventure that we call our discipline. For these nine memories, and for all those captured in previous volumes, we can thank Darnell and Gleach. -Anthropology Review Database

"Histories of Anthropology Annual has saved and transmitted many memorable episodes from the adventure that we call our discipline. For these nine memories, and for all those captured in previous volumes, we can thank Darnell and Gleach."" -Anthropology Review Database"

Author Information

Regna Darnell is the Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015) and general editor of the multivolume series The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997).  

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