The limits of multiculturalism : interrogating the origins of American anthropology / Scott Michaelsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaelsen, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Historiography.

Indians of North America.

Eurocentrism--United States.

Eurocentrism.

Indianists--History.

Indianists.

Anthropology--United States--History.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the early nineteenth century, the profession of American anthropology emerged as European Americans began to make a living by studying the "Indian." Less well known are the AmerIndians who, at that time, were writing and publishing ethnographic accounts of their own people. By bringing to the fore this literature of autoethnography and revealing its role in the forming of anthropology as we know it, this book searches out-and shakes-the foundations of American cultural studies, asserting the importance of the Indian voices to the discipline.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prolegomenon: Groundwork: The Limits of Multiculturalism; 1. Positions, Ex-Positions, Dis-Positions; 2. Destructuring Whiteness: Color, Animality, Hierarchy; 3. Amerindian Voice(s) in Ethnography; 4. Methodists and Method: Conversion and Representation; 5. Borders of Anthropology, History, and Science; Coda: Anthropology and Archaeo-logicality; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8975-X

OCLC:

476094712