Full Description
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, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology.
Volume 13, 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 Native North America. Individual contributions explore the complexity of women's history, indigenous history, national traditions, and oral histories to juxtapose what we understand of the past with its present continuities. These contributions include Sharon Lindenburger's examination of Franz Boas and his navigation with Jewish identity, Kathy M'Closkey's documentation of Navajo weavers and their struggles with cultural identities and economic resources and demands, and Mindy Morgan's use of the text of Ruth Underhill's O'odham study to capture the voices of three generations of women ethnographers.
Because this work bridges anthropology and history, a richer and more varied view of the past emerges through the meticulous narratives of anthropologists and their unique fieldwork, ultimately providing competing points of access to social dynamics. This volume examines events at both macro and micro levels, documenting the impact large-scale historical events have had on particular individuals and challenging the uniqueness of a single interpretation of "the same facts."
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Editors' Introduction
Regan Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach
1. Totalitarian Critique: Fabian and the History of Primitive Anthropology
Frederico Delgado Rosa
2. Ich Bin JÜdischer Abstammung (I Am of Jewish Lineage): The Conflicted Jewish Identity of the Anthropologist Franz Boas
Sharon Lindenburger
3. A Document in an Unexpected Place: John P. Harrington and the Stevenson Scrapbook
Nancy J. Parezo
4. Diasporas Of and By Design: Exploring the Unholy Alliance between Museums and the Diffusion of Navajo (DinÉ) Textile Designs
Kathy M'Closkey
5. Mock Rituals, Sham Battles, and Real Research: Anthropologists and the Ethnographic Study of the Bontoc Igorot in 1900s "Igorrote Villages"
Deana L. Weibel
6. Indigenous Studies in Argentina: Anthropology, History, and Ethnohistory from the 1980s
Claudia Salomon Tarquini
Voicing the Ancestors
7. Fieldwork Predecessors and Indigenous Communities In Native North America
Ira Bashkow
8. No Object Without Its Story: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Creation of a Native Material Anthropology
Ira Jacknis
9. Encounters in Ontario: Acts Of Ethnographic Search and Rescue
Margaret M. Bruchac
10. The Boas Plan: A View From the Margins
Saul Schwartz
11. Look Once More at the Old Things: Ruth Underhill's O'odham Text Collections
Mindy Morgan
12. Rereading Deloria: Against Workshops, for Communities
Sebastian F. Braun
13. "Let's Do Better This Time": Vine Deloria Jr.'s Ongoing Engagement with Anthropology
Robert L. A. Hancock
Contributors
