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Book SynopsisThe series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing the 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 14,
Centering the Margins of Anthropology’s History, focuses on the conscious recognition of margins and suggests it is time to bring the margins to the center, both in terms of a changing theoretical openness and a supporting body of scholarship—if not to problematize the very dichotomy of center and margins itself.
The essays explore two major themes of anthropology’s margins. First, anthropologists and historians have long sought out marginalized and forgotten ancestors, arguing for their present-day relevance and offering explanations for the lac
Trade Review"Scholars have argued that intellectual and knowledge borders and margins and their intersections are where paradigmatic and theoretical breakthroughs occur, but also that the margins are where those without disciplinary power are relegated to work upon being denied more central positions.
Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History adds a new dimension to these considerations while challenging the existing dichotomy, arguing that intellectual margins must be viewed as the center of knowledge production. In 11 insightful chapters, contributors explore overlooked scholars who were marginalized due to their subdiscipline, attempts to make their work socially relevant, where they worked, their gender and heritage, the types of writing they pursued, and critical institutional events."—N. J. Parezo,
Choice“Vital for the discipline of anthropology and for those wanting to perform a history of science. This volume brings to light a plethora of authors, studies, and subjects that are often left on the periphery of the discipline so that we can discover and rediscover forgotten heroes. It is a wonderfully eclectic set of papers that group together in some truly fascinating ways.”—Robert P. Wishart, coeditor of
Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-DomesticationTable of ContentsContents
Editors’ Introduction
Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach
1. A Forgotten Pioneer: Haviland Scudder Mekeel and the Expansion of Anthropology
Herbert S. Lewis
2. Dear Dr. Boas: The Collaboration and Contribution of Ella Cara Deloria and Franz Boas
David C. Posthumus
3. Reckoning with Rietz: A Sketch of an Action Anthropologist
Joshua Smith
4. Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital Archives Project—Barriers in Bringing Medical Anthropology to Medical Practice: Adrian Tanner, the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital, and Cross-Cultural Miscommunication
Ian Puppe, North de Pencier, and Gerald McKinley
5. Sickness and Ideology among the Ojibway (Summer 1971)
Adrian Tanner
6. We Hope That You Will Continue to Teach Us How Best to Learn: Assembling the Pascua Yaqui Tribe at the 89th Wenner-Gren International Symposium
Nicholas Barron
7. His Past Rose Up to Defeat Him: F. G. G. Rose and Academic and Political Freedom
Geoffrey Gray
8. Extraterrestrial Anthropology and Science Fiction: A Review and Reflection
Charles D. Laughlin
9. Genres of Memory: Reading Anthropology’s History through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Science Fiction and Contemporary Native American Oral Tradition
Regna Darnell
10. A Public Anthropology of Transition
Vintilă Mihăilescu
11. An Interview with Stephen O. Murray on Stephen O. Murray as Historian of Anthropology (and More)
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Regna Darnell, Nathan Dawthorne, and Robert Oppenheim
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