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Book SynopsisDisruptive 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.
Trade Review"[
Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories will] be of interest to anthropological folklorists and folklorists interested in the history of the academic study of Native American cultures, as that is the corner of Boas's work featured most prominently here. Those interested in the study of museums and material culture will also find several chapters useful."—Sarah M. Gordon,
Journal of Folklore Research ReviewsTable of ContentsContents
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
