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    Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

    Regna Darnell (Edited by), Frederic W. Gleach (Edited by)

    9781496242297

    Paperback / softback, published 1 August 2025

    382 pages, 6 photographs, 3 illustrations, 1 table
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “This collection of essays is a remarkable and important contribution to the history of anthropology. It is also a contribution to our disciplinary understanding of methods development, public anthropology, and the ways in which anthropology is applied. The papers related to Nancy O. Lurie are particularly significant for our understanding of methods development.”-Thomas McIlwraith, author of “We Are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia

    Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study, anthropology’s four-field discipline contains myriad practices, theories, and methodologies that are often divergent, contradictory, and associated with nationally based schools of thought, contributing to a vital and diverse global discipline.

    This volume emphasizes the challenges international scholars face as they engage both local and global movements. Several European traditions are represented, including two chapters adding to the body of work on Portugal from previous volumes in the series. North American traditions are well represented, including a collection of works on Nancy Lurie. Also included is an important examination of the collection of human skeletal remains in Argentina, presented in English for the first time. Readers will find both new information and new ways of understanding this complex history.
     

    List of Illustrations

    Editors’ Introduction by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach

    1. Rooting in the Subterranean: Underground Dwellers in Northern Indigenous Narratives and Metropolitan Anthropological Theories
    Dmitry V. Arzyutov

    2. Between Polish and British Academia and Macedonian Fieldwork: JÓzef Obrębski and the First Functionalist Research of the European Village
    Anna Engelking

    3. “This Incredibly Fast Upswing of the American Negroes”: Felix von Luschan’s “Die Neger in den Vereinigten Staaten” (1915)
    John David Smith and Sylvia Angelica Smith

    4. The Institutionalization of Anthropology in Portugal: Contributions from the University of Coimbra
    PatrÍcia Ferraz de Matos

    5. Between Science and Ideology: An Intellectual Biography of AntÓnio Mendes Correia (1888–1960)
    PatrÍcia Ferraz de Matos

    6. John Wesley Powell, John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, and the Battle over American Indian Languages
    Leila Monaghan

    7. The Relationship between Literature and Ethnography: The Example of Edward Sapir, 1917–22
    James M. Nyce

    8. Edward Sapir, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Harold Lasswell Collaborations: Real and Imagined
    Richard J. Preston

    9. Silenced Bodies: The Accession of Mortal Remains in the Museum of Ethnography, 1904–16, during the Argentinian Gran Chaco Military Campaigns
    Sandra Tolosa and Lena DÁvila

    A Special Style: Nancy Oestreich Lurie’s Legacy of Engaged Anthropology
    Special section edited by Grant Arndt and Larry Nesper

    10. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s Work
    Larry Nesper

    11. “Pow-Wow-How-Taxed-We-Are”: Nancy Lurie and Sol Tax
    Judy Daubenmier

    12. Nancy Lurie and Ho-Chunk Reorganization: Action Anthropology, Indigenous Nation Rebuilding, and the Struggle for Decolonization
    Grant Arndt

    13. Unmasking “The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness”: Nancy Lurie, Jean Nicolet, and the Ho-Chunks
    Patrick J. Jung

    14. Merging Worlds: Writing to Be Read, Hanging Out with Indian People
    Alice B. Kehoe and Dawn Scher Thomae

    15. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s “Applied Anthropology”
    Joshua Smith

    16. Applied Anthropology
    Nancy Oestreich Lurie

    17. Nancy Oestreich Lurie: Bibliography
    Patrick J. Jung

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