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A landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America.
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"Invisible Genealogies" is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many American anthropologists has called for an 'experimental moment' grounded in explicit self-reflexive scholarship and experimentation with alternate forms of presentation. Such postmodern anthropology has effectively downplayed connections with past luminaries in the field, whose scholarship is perceived to be uncomfortably colonialist and non reflexive.Ironically, as the American Anthropological Association nears its one hundredth anniversary and interest in the history of the discipline is at an all-time high, that history has been effectively presented as removed and irrelevant to the new generation. "Invisible Genealogies" offers an alternative, compelling vision of the development of anthropology in North America, one that emphasizes continuity rather than discontinuity from legendary founder Franz Boas to the present.Regna Darnell identifies key interpretive assumptions and practices that have persisted, sometimes in modified form, since the seminal work of A. L.Kroeber, Boas, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Elsie Clews Parsons, Paul Radin, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and A.Irving Hallowell during the founding decades of anthropology. Also highlighted are the Americanist roots of postmodern anthropology and the work of seminal recent scholars like Claude Levi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz. Regna Darnell is a professor of anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. Her many works include "And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology" and "Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist".
Contents
ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Invisibility of Americanist Genealogies1 Resuscitating the Habits of Historicism1 Recovering the Complexity of Our History Distinctive Features of the Americanist Tradition Why These Genealogies Are Invisible Why the Americanist Tradition Persists The Plan of the Work 1. History and Psychology as Anthropological Problems Boas and the Boasians in the History of Anthropology History and Psychology as the Poles of Boasian Theory The Boasian Model of Culture Change: Diffusion The Sapir Model of Culture Change: Genetic Relationship Boas's Reaction to the Sapir Classification Disciplinary Consequences 2. Culture as Superorganic Culture as Anthropology's Autonomous Level of Explanation The Dream of Synthesis and the Failure of Nerve Complexity and the Reformulation of the Culture Concept Style, Women's Fashion, and Cultural Wholes Setting the Stage for a New Concept of Culture 3. Culture Internalized Anthropology without the Superorganic "Standpoint" and the Individual in Culture The Anthropologist's Quest for "Genuine" Culture The Need for Interdisciplinary Triangulation 4. Philosophizing with the "Other" Primitive Man as Philosopher The Individual in History The Counterargument for Systematic Philosophy The Closing of the Philosophical Mind Are the Alternatives Philosophies? In Search of Contemporary "Primitive" Philosophers 5. Linguistic Relativity and Cultural Relativism Benjamin Lee Whorf as Core Sapirian Linguist The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Linguistic Relativity and Analytic Philosophy Ruth Benedict and the Arc of Cultural Selection Cognitive Science vs. Grammatical Categories 6. The Challenge of Life Histories Variable Uses of the Life History The Baseline: American Indian Life Boasian Explorations of the Arts Transmitting Disciplinary Wisdom: In the Company of Man American Indian Intellectuals Relegated to Ethnohistory 7. Blurred Genres of Ethnography and Fiction Psychology and Culture in the New Ethnography: A. Irving Hallowell among the Ojibwes What Is That Coyote Up to Now? Native Writers and Anthropological Stereoscopy Anthropologically Sophisticated Literature: The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin On the Anthropological Applications of an English Degree What if the Ethnographer Writes Well? Reading the New Ethnographies 8. Will the Real Americanists Please Stand? Rhetorics of Continuity and Discontinuity Claude Levi-Strauss as Self-Incorporated Americanist Clifford Geertz as Nuanced Americanist The Illusory "Experimental Moment" of Writing Culture The Rhetoric of Normal Science Interdisciplinary Misreadings of Anthropology 9. Reconstructing the Metanarrative of Anthropology Deconstructing "Us" and "Them" Race and Racism: From Biology to Culture Identity Politics and Standpoint Epistemology The Anthropologist as Public Intellectual: Educating a Public Audience for Contemporary Anthropology Bibliography Index
