Tracking Anthropological Engagements

Klappentext Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public IntellectualTheory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015) and general editor of the multivolume series The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the 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). Zusammenfassung Examines the work and influence of Hans Sidonius Becker! Franz Boas! Sigmund Freud! Margaret Mead! Karl Popper! and Anthony F. C. Wallace! as well as anthropological perspectives on the 1964 Project Camelot! Latin American cultures at the 1892 Madrid International Expositions! sixteenth-century cosmography and topography in Amazonia! and community-produced wartime narratives in Ontario! Canada.

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Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies 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) and general editor of the multivolume series The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the 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).

Résumé
Examines the work and influence of Hans Sidonius Becker, Franz Boas, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Karl Popper, and Anthony F. C. Wallace, as well as anthropological perspectives on the 1964 Project Camelot, Latin American cultures at the 1892 Madrid International Expositions, sixteenth-century cosmography and topography in Amazonia, and community-produced wartime narratives in Ontario, Canada.

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Editors’ Introduction

1. Topography and Cosmography in the Sixteenth Century: A Window into Early Ethnography
   Driton Nushaj
2. Faded Tracks of Austrian Anthropology: Hans Sidonius (von) Becker (1895–1948) and Some of His Contemporaries
   Christian Feest
3. Is It Anthropology?: Exhibiting Latin American Cultures at the 1892 Madrid International Expositions
   Nancy J. Parezo and Catherine A. Nichols
4. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1909: Language, Culture, and the Boas-Freud Intersection
   John Leavitt
5. Karl Popper’s Enheartening of Derek Freeman’s Attacks on Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa
   Stephen O. Murray
6. Anthropology’s Camelot Myth—And What We Can Learn from It
   Herbert S. Lewis
7. A Model for Open Community Engagement: Six Nations, the gwca, and the Production of Wartime Narratives
   Evan Habkirk
8. Guns and Ivy: An Anthropologist’s Memoir
   Anthony F. C. Wallace
   Contributors