Theorizing the Americanist Tradition / Lisa Phillips Valentine, Regna Darnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darnell, Regna, Editor.

Valentine, Lisa Phillips, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics--Canada.

Anthropological linguistics.

Anthropological linguistics--United States.

Indians of North America--Languages.

Indians of North America.

United States.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 397 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This collection challenges the prevailing notion that the Americanist Tradition in anthropology, typified by Franz Boas and his colleagues, is atheoretical. Contributions from twenty-five distinguished scholars are brought together here to provide a comprehensive, accessible, state-of-the-art appraisal of interdisciplinary research in the areas of anthropology, linguistics, and Native Studies."--Jacket

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Introduction: Timely Conversations

2. Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King

3 Theorizing Americanist Anthropology: Continuities from the B .A.E. to the Boasians

4 The Non-Eclipse of Americanist Anthropology during the l 930s and 1940s

5 Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition

6 Boas on the Threshold of Ethnopoetics

7 Cultural Relativism in the Americanist Tradition: From Anthropological Method to Indigenous Emancipation

8 Authenticity and Aggiornamento in Spoken Texts and Their Critical Edition

9 Reflections on Culture, History, and Authenticity

10 Dialogues between Worlds: Mesoamerica after and before the European Invasion

11 The Meaning of Writing and Text in a Changing Americanist Tradition

12 Continuities and Renewals in Mayan Literacy and Calendrics

13 Why Collect Texts? The Native, Evangelical, and Americanist Traditions among the Tuscaroras

14 George A. Dorsey, James R. Murie, and the Textual Documentation of Skiri Pawnee

15 'George Sword Wrote These': Lakota Culture as Lakota Text

16 Ella Cara Deloria: Early Lakota Ethnologist (Newly Discovered Novelist)

17 Past and New Directions for Fieldwork in Ethnolinguistics: The Case of Micmac (Northern Dialects)

18 Nisga' a Studies and the Americanist Tradition: Bringing First Nations Research and Teaching into the Academy

19 Policy on Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Notes on Status Planning

20 'Interpersonal Relations' in a Kalapalo Shaman's Narrative

21 Sequentiality and Temporalization in the Narrative Construction of a South American Cholera Epidemic

22 Personal Agency in Systemic Discourse

23 'Critical Linguistics': Alternative Approaches to Text in the American Tradition

24 Current Extensions of Sapir and Whorf in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science: Cognitive Styles and Ontological Categories

25 Anticipating Queer Theory

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-7507-6

OCLC:

1153460113