Correcting the record : essays on the history of American anthropology / Herbert S. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Herbert S., author.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 51.

Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological ethics.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn, [2025]

Summary:

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. Herbert S. Lewis recovers the reality of the first century of American anthropology as a vital scholarly discipline that rejected established ideas of race, insisted on the value of very different ways of life, and delivered irreplaceable ethnographic studies. This volume presents powerful refutations of the accumulated damaging myths about anthropology’s history.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

Chapter 2 - American Anthropology and Colonialism

Chapter 3 - Alfred L. Kroeber's Career and Contributions to California's Indigenous People

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 Multidimensional 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

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781805397663

1805397664

9781805397670

1805397672