Correcting the Record

Herbert S. Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some of his publications are Jimma Abba Jifar: An Oromo Monarchy (orig. 1965; Red Sea Press, 2001), After the Eagles Landed: The Yemenites of Israel (Taylor & Francis, 1989), Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of Wisconsin Oneidas (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), and In Defense of Anthropology: An Investigation of the Critique of Anthropology (Taylor & Francis, 2014).

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Introduction



Chapter 1. Does a Decolonized Anthropology Require Reinterpreting the Past?

Chapter 2. American Anthropology and Colonialism: A Factual Account

Chapter 3. Alfred L. Kroeber’s Career and Contributions to California’s Indigenous Peoples

Chapter 4. American Anthropology, the Cold War, and Intellectual History

Chapter 5. Anthropology’s Camelot Myth and What We Can Learn from It

Chapter 6. Philleo Nash: An Anthropologist Serving the People

Chapter 7. A Forgotten Innovator: Haviland Scudder Mekeel and the Expansion of Anthropology

Chapter 8. Walter R. Goldschmidt: A Multi-dimensional Pioneer

Chapter 9. Salvage Anthropology Considered: On Redman’s Prophets and Ghosts

Chapter 10. Four Fields and Sacred Bundles: On Segal and Yanagisako, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology

Chapter 11. Ishi and Kroeber Again: Wild Men in the Eyes of Douglas Sackman



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