Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022). Darnell is the general editor of The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition series and coeditor of the Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer and curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997).    

List of Illustrations

Editors' Introduction, Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach

1. Rooting in the Subterranean: Underground Dwellers in Northern Indigenous Narratives and Metropolitan Anthropological Theories, Dmitry V. Arzyutov

2. Between Polish and British Academia and Macedonian Fieldwork: Józef Obrębski and the First Functionalist Research of European Village, Anna Engelking

3. “This Incredibly Fast Upswing of the American Negroes”: Felix von Luschan’s “Die Neger in den Vereinigten Staaten” (1915), John David Smith and Sylvia Angelica Smith

4. The Institutionalization of Anthropology in Portugal: Contributions from the University of Coimbra, Patrícia Ferraz de Matos

5. Between Science and Ideology: An Intellectual Biography of Mendes Correia (1888-1960), Patrícia Ferraz de Matos

6. John Wesley Powell, John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, and the Battle over American Indian Languages, Leila Monaghan

7. The Relationship Between Literature and Ethnography: The Example of Edward Sapir, 1917-1922, James M. Nyce

8. Sapir, Sullivan, and Laswell Collaborations: Real and Imagined, Richard J. Preston

9. Silenced Bodies: The Accession of Mortal Remains in the Museum of Ethnography, 1904 to 1916, During the Argentinian Gran Chaco Military Campaigns, Sandra Tolosa and Lena Dávila

A Special Style: Nancy Lurie’s Legacy of Engaged Anthropology

Special section edited by Grant Arndt and Larry Nesper

10. Introduction, Larry Nesper

11. "Pow-Wow-How-Taxed-We-Are": Nancy O. Lurie and Sol Tax, Judy Daubenmier

12. Nancy Lurie and Ho-Chunk Reorganization: Action Anthropology, Indigenous Nation-Rebuilding, and the Struggle for Decolonization, Grant Arndt

13. Unmasking "The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness": Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Jean Nicolet, and the Ho-Chunks, Patrick J. Jung

14. Merging Worlds: Writing to be Read, Hanging Out with Indian People, Alice B. Kehoe and Dawn Scher Thomae

15. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s “Applied Anthropology,” Joshua Smith

16. "Applied Anthropology," Nancy Oestreich Lurie

17. Nancy Oestreich Lurie: Complete Bibliography, Patrick J. Jung

Contributors