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Book SynopsisExamines worldwide historical trends of anthropology ranging from the assertion that all British anthropology is a study of the Old Testament to the discovery of the untranslated shorthand notes of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas. Other topics include archival research into the study of Vancouver Island’s indigenous languages, and explorations of the Christian notion of virgin births.
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has saved and transmitted many memorable episodes from the adventure that we call our discipline. For these nine memories, and for all those captured in previous volumes, we can thank Darnell and Gleach."
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Editors’ Introduction
1. Anthropologists and the Bible: The Marett Lecture, April 2012
Adam Kuper
2. Dead and Living Authorities in
The Legend of Perseus: Animism and Christianity in the Evolutionist Archive
Frederico D. Rosa
3. Anthropology in Portugal: The Case of the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (SPAE), 1918
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos
4. A View from the West: The Institute of Social Science and the Amazon
Priscila Faulhaber
5. Scientific Diplomacy and the Establishment of an Australian Chair of Anthropology, 1914–25
Geoffrey Gray
6. The Saga of the L. H. Morgan Archive, or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet Ethnography
Sergei A. Kan and Dmitry V. Arzyutov
7. “I Wrote All My Notes in Shorthand”: A First Glance into the Treasure Chest of Franz Boas’s Shorthand Field Notes
Rainer Hatoum
8. Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on Ethnographic Practice in the Archive of Dr. Susan Golla
Denise Nicole Green
9. The File Hills Farm Colony Legacy
Cheyanne Desnomie
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