Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History

Regna Darnell, Frederic W. Gleach

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781496225535
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496226273
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

The 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 lack of attention to their contributions to theory, analysis, methods, and findings. Second, anthropologists and their historians have explored a range of genres to present their results in provocative and open-ended formats. This volume closes with an experimental essay that offers a dynamic, multifaceted perspective that captures one of the dominant (if sometimes marginalized) voices in history of anthropology. Steven O. Murray’s career developed at the institutional margins of several academic disciplines and activist discourses, but his distinctive voice has been, and will remain, at the center of our history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editors’ Introduction
• 1. A Forgotten Pioneer
• 2. Dear Dr. Boas
• 3. Reckoning with Rietz
• 4. Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital Archives Project—Barriers in Bringing Medical Anthropology to Medical Practice
• 5. Sickness and Ideology among the Ojibway (Summer 1971)
• 6. We Hope That You Will Continue to Teach Us How Best to Learn
• 7. His Past Rose Up to Defeat Him
• 8. Extraterrestrial Anthropology and Science Fiction
• 9. Genres of Memory
• 10. A Public Anthropology of Transition
• 11. An Interview with Stephen O. Murray on Stephen O. Murray as Historian of Anthropology (and More)
• Contributors
• About Regna Darnell
• About Frederic W. Gleach