{"product_id":"the-history-of-anthropology-9781496228147","title":"The History of Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe History of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, \u003ci\u003eThe History of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell’s fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology’s four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropolo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This work is relevant today as a history of linguistics in Boas's era of American anthropology, with segments on Sapir and his colleagues.\"—A. B. Kehoe, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Regna Darnell has provided us with a key source for the documentation and analysis of the development of American anthropology. This is an important, nay, an excellent volume.\"—Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A profound understanding of the Boasian bedrock by a living legend in the history of anthropology. Against breaking with the past, Regna Darnell dialogues with Americanist ancestors from Powell to Hallowell and projects her own lifetime achievements—and metamorphoses—as historian of the discipline into the future.”—Christine Laurière and Frederico Delgado Rosa, directors of \u003ci\u003eBEROSE: International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Editorial Method\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Professionalization of American Anthropology: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Development of American Folklore Scholarship, 1880–1920\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Emergence of Academic Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e 5. Documenting Disciplinary History\u003cbr\u003e 6. Franz Boas’s Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: The APS Archives and the Future of Americanist Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 7. Franz Boas: Scientist and Public Intellectual\u003cbr\u003e 8. Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist Text Tradition\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Emergence of Edward Sapir’s Mature Thought\u003cbr\u003e 10. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic Relationships\u003cbr\u003e 11. Camelot at Yale: The Construction and Dismantling of the Sapirian Synthesis, 1931–1939\u003cbr\u003e 12. Benedictine Visionings of Southwestern Cultural Diversity: Beyond Relativism\u003cbr\u003e 13. Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian Foundations of Contemporary Ethnolinguistics\u003cbr\u003e 14. Mary R. Haas and the First Yale School of Linguistics\u003cbr\u003e 15. Stanley Newman and the Sapir School of Linguistics\u003cbr\u003e 16. Hallowell’s “Bear Ceremonialism” and the Emergence of Boasian Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 17. Franz Boas and the Development of Physical Anthropology in North America\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409236926807,"sku":"9781496228147","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496228147.jpg?v=1730506087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-history-of-anthropology-9781496228147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}