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Author:   Regna Darnell
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.753kg
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9781496224170

ISBN 10:   1496224175
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   01 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Editorial Method Introduction List of Abbreviations 1. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist 2. The Professionalization of American Anthropology: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge 3. The Development of American Folklore Scholarship, 1880–1920 4. The Emergence of Academic Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania 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 Sapirian Synthesis, 1931–1939 12. Benedictine Visionings of Southwestern Cultural Diversity: Beyond Relativism 13. Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian Foundations of Contemporary Ethnolinguistics 14. Mary R. 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 Index

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"""This work is relevant today as a history of linguistics in Boas's era of American anthropology, with segments on Sapir and his colleagues.""—A. B. Kehoe, Choice “A profound understanding of the Boasian bedrock by a living legend in the history of anthropology. Against breaking with the past, Regna Darnell dialogues with Americanist ancestors from Powell to Hallowell and projects her own lifetime achievements—and metamorphoses—as historian of the discipline into the future.”—Christine Laurière and Frederico Delgado Rosa, directors of BEROSE: International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology"

A profound understanding of the Boasian bedrock by a living legend in the history of anthropology. Against breaking with the past, Regna Darnell dialogues with Americanist ancestors from Powell to Hallowell and projects her own lifetime achievements--and metamorphoses--as historian of the discipline into the future. --Christine Lauriere and Frederico Delgado Rosa, directors of BEROSE: International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology

This work is relevant today as a history of linguistics in Boas's era of American anthropology, with segments on Sapir and his colleagues. -A. B. Kehoe, Choice A profound understanding of the Boasian bedrock by a living legend in the history of anthropology. Against breaking with the past, Regna Darnell dialogues with Americanist ancestors from Powell to Hallowell and projects her own lifetime achievements-and metamorphoses-as historian of the discipline into the future. -Christine Lauriere and Frederico Delgado Rosa, directors of BEROSE: International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology

Author Information

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology 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 author of Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist (Nebraska, 2010), Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001), and many other works. Darnell is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the American Anthropological Association and the Women’s Network of the Canadian Anthropology Society.  

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