Excluded ancestors, inventible traditions : essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology / edited by Richard Handler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handler, Richard, 1950-

Series:

History of anthropology ; v. 9.

History of anthropology ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--History.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

viii, 315 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

History-making can be used both to bolster and to contest the legitimacy of established institutions and canons. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions seeks to widen the anthropological past and, in doing so, to invigorate contemporary anthropological practice. In the past decade, anthropologists have become increasingly aware of the ways in which participation in professional anthropology has depended and continues to depend on categorical boundaries of race, class, gender, citizenship, institutional and disciplinary affiliation, and English-language proficiency. Historians of anthropology play a crucial role interrogating such boundaries; as they do, they make newly available the work of anthropologists who have been ignored. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions focuses on little-known scholars who contributed to the anthropological work of their time, such as John William Jackson, the members of the Hampton Folk-Lore Society, Charlotte Gower Chapman, and Lucie Varga. In addition, essays on Marius Barbeau and Sol Tax present figures who were centrally located in the anthropologies of their day. A final essay analyzes notions of "the canon" and considers the place of a classic ethnographic area, highland New Guinea, in anthropological canon-formation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Boundaries and Traditions / Richard Handler

Occult Truths: Race, Conjecture, and Theosophy in Victorian Anthropology / Peter Pels

Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift: The Mission of the Hampton Folk-Lore Society, 1893-1899 / Lee D. Baker

Working for a Canadian Sense of Place(s): The Role of Landscape Painters in Marius Barbeau's Ethnology / Frances M. Slaney

Charlotte Gower and the Subterranean History of Anthropology / Maria Lepowsky

Do Good, Young Man": Sol Tax and the World Mission of Liberal Democratic Anthropology / George W. Stocking, Jr.

In the Immediate Vicinity a World Has Come to an End": Lucie Varga as an Ethnographer of National Socialism-A Retrospective Review Essay / Ronald Stade

Melanesian Can(n)ons: Paradoxes and Prospects in Melanesian Ethnography / Doug Dalton

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612638145

9781282638143

1282638149

9780299163938

0299163938

OCLC:

655742863