Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

Regna Darnell, Frederic W. Gleach

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496243843
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study, anthropology’s four-field discipline contains myriad practices, theories, and methodologies that are often divergent, contradictory, and associated with nationally based schools of thought, contributing to a vital and diverse global discipline.

This volume emphasizes the challenges international scholars face as they engage both local and global movements. Several European traditions are represented, including two chapters adding to the body of work on Portugal from previous volumes in the series. North American traditions are well represented, including a collection of works on Nancy Lurie. Also included is an important examination of the collection of human skeletal remains in Argentina, presented in English for the first time. Readers will find both new information and new ways of understanding this complex history.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Editors’ Introduction
• 1. Rooting in the Subterranean
• 2. Between Polish and British Academia and Macedonian Fieldwork
• 3. “This Incredibly Fast Upswing of the American Negroes”
• 4. The Institutionalization of Anthropology in Portugal
• 5. Between Science and Ideology
• 6. John Wesley Powell, John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, and the Battle over American Indian Languages
• 7. The Relationship between Literature and Ethnography
• 8. Edward Sapir, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Harold Lasswell Collaborations
• 9. Silenced Bodies
• A Special Style
• 10. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s Work
• 11. “Pow-Wow-How-Taxed-We-Are”
• 12. Nancy Lurie and Ho-Chunk Reorganization
• 13. Unmasking “The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness”
• 14. Merging Worlds
• 15. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s “Applied Anthropology”
• 16. Applied Anthropology
• 17. Nancy Oestreich Lurie
• Contributors
• About Regna Darnell
• About Frederic W. Gleach