Local Knowledge, Global Stage

Darnell, Regna (EDT); Gleach, Frederic W. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0803288107 / ISBN 13: 9780803288102

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Local Knowledge, Global Stage
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803288107
• ISBN 13: 9780803288102
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Histories of Anthropology Annual presents localized perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology.

This tenth volume of the series, Local Knowledge, Global Stage, examines 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, explorations of the Christian notion of virgin births in Edwin Sidney Hartland’s The Legend of Perseus, and the Canadian government’s implementation of European-model farms as a way to undermine Native culture. In addition to Boas and Hartland, the essays explore the research and personalities of Susan Golla, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and others.
 
 
 

About the Author

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology Emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015). Darnell is the general editor of the multivolume series The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition and co-editor of the Critical Studies in History of Anthropology series.