Full Description
In Invisible Contrarian Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950-2019), who did pioneering research in ethnolinguistics and anthropology of gender and homosexuality. His socially relevant work continues to provide a cogent example of an emergent, forward-looking anthropology for the twenty-first century.
Murray's wide-ranging work included linguistics, regional ethnography in Latin America and Asia, activism, history of anthropology in relation to social sciences, and migration studies.
Along with a complete list of his publications, Invisible Contrarian highlights Murray's methodological innovations and includes key writings that remain little known, since he never pursued a tenured research position. Murray's significant, prolific contributions deserve not only to be reexamined but to be shared with contemporary and future audiences. Ideal both as a primer for those who have not yet read Murray's work and as an in-depth resource for those already familiar with him, this volume demonstrates the wide-ranging accomplishments of a man who modeled how to be an independent scholar outside an academic position.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface by Peter M. Nardi
Part 1. Introduction
Introducing Stephen O. Murray as Invisible Contrarian
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Regna Darnell
1. Stephen O. Murray in His Own Words: Extracts from His Journal
Prepared by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Regna Darnell
Part 2. Disciplinary History
2. The Breadth and Depth of Creativity in Stephen O. Murray's Research and Publications
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
3. Stephen O. Murray as Collaborator
Regna Darnell
4. Thinking through Area in the History of Anthropology
Robert Oppenheim
5. "aids and the Social Imaginary" Thirty Years Later: A Controversial Early Skirmish in the Decolonizing of Anthropology
Ralph Bolton
Part 3. Homosexualities
6. Stephen O. Murray's Legacy in the Comparative Study of Homosexualities
Barry D Adam
7. Stephen O. Murray's Contributions to Homosexuality Studies in Latin America
Milton Machuca-GÁlvez
8. Stephen O. Murray and the Development of Queer African Studies
Marc Epprecht
Part 4. Stephen O. Murray Gets the Last Word
9. John Gumperz in Context: 1977 and 1992 Interviews
Stephen O. Murray
10. Doing History of Anthropology
Stephen O. Murray
11. What Is a Conversation (in Anglo America)?
Stephen O. Murray
12. Introduction to Male Sexual Subjectivities
Stephen O. Murray
13. What Had Been
Stephen O. Murray
Appendix
Contributors
Index
