Table of Contents

 List of Figures Acknowledgments Historiographic Conundra: The Boasian Elephant in the Middle of Anthropology’s Room Regna DarnellPart 1. Theory and Interdisciplinary Scope1. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: Boasian Theory at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man Regna Darnell2. The Individual and Individuality in Franz Boas’s Anthropology and Philosophy Herbert S. Lewis3. The Police Dance: Dissemination in Boas’s Field Notes and Diaries, 1886–1894 Christopher Bracken4. Franz Boas and the Conditions of Literature J. Edward Chamberlin5. From Baffin Island to Boasian Induction: How Anthropology and Linguistics Got into Their Interlinear Groove Michael Silverstein6. The Boasian Legacy in Ethnomusicology: Cultural Relativism, Narrative Texts, Linguistic Structures, and the Role of Comparison Sean O’NeillPart 2. Ethnography7. Friends in This World: The Relationship of George Hunt and Franz Boas Isaiah Lorado Wilner8. The Ethnographic Legacy of Franz Boas and James Teit: The Thompson Indians of British Columbia Andrea LaforetPart 3. Activism9. Anthropological Activism and Boas’s Pacific Northwest Ethnology David W. Dinwoodie10. Franz Boas, Wilson Duff, and the Image of Anthropology in British Columbia Robert L. A. Hancock11. Cultural Persistence in the Age of “Hopelessness”: Phinney, Boas, and U.S. Indian Policy Joshua Smith12. Franz Boas’s Correspondence with German Friends and Colleagues in the Early 1930s Jürgen Langenkämper13. Franz Boas on War and Empire: The Making of a Public Intellectual Julia E. LissPart 4. The Archival Project14. Anthropology of Revitalization: Digitizing the American Philosophical Society’s Native American Collections Timothy B. Powell15. “An expansive archive . . . not a diminished one”: The Franz Boas Documentary Edition Project Michelle HamiltonContributors The Franz Boas Papers Project Team Index  

About the Author

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001). Michelle Hamilton is an associate professor and director of public history at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario. Robert L. A. Hancock is the LE,NONET Academic Coordinator in the Office of Indigenous Affairs and adjunct assistant professor in anthropology and environmental studies at the University of Victoria. Joshua Smith is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario.

Reviews

"This is an important volume. . . . The many excellent papers gathered here accurately represent the current state of scholarship on Boas and the history of North American anthropology."—Richard Handler, Journal of Anthropological Research

"As a stand-alone piece and as a first step in the grand Boas project, this volume is an important and fascinating contribution toward the understanding of a man who, if he did not heroically invent anthropology single-handedly, certainly did have a disproportionate influence on its formation and early direction."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database

"Highly recommended."—CHOICE

“This pathbreaking book transforms our understanding of Franz Boas as both scientist and citizen, going far beyond commonly accepted views of this influential figure of American cultural life. Presented from a firmly contemporary perspective, these important and well-researched essays will surely be the foundation of much future study.”—Ira Jacknis, research anthropologist at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley