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Historicizing Canadian anthropology
Julia D. Harrison,Regna Darnell +1 more
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Harrison and Darnell as discussed by the authors presented a history of Canadian anthropology, focusing on the pre-professional history of the field and the early years of Canadian anthropology, as well as the development and evolution of the discipline.Abstract:
1 Historicizing Traditions in Canadian Anthropology / Julia Harrison and Regna Darnell Part 1: Situating Ourselves Historically and Theoretically 2 Disciplinary Tribes and Territories: Alliances and Skirmishes between Anthropology and History / A.B. McKillop 3 Toward a Historiography of Canadian Anthropology / Robert L.A. Hancock Part 2: The Pre-professional History of Canadian Anthropology 4 The Erasure of Horatio Hale's Contributions to Boasian Anthropology / David Nock 5 Marius Barbeau and the Methodology of Salvage Ethnography in Canada, 1911-51 / Andrew Nurse 6 Iroquoian Archaeology, the Public, and Native Communities in Victorian Ontario / Michelle A. Hamilton Part 3: Locating our Subjects 7 Canadian Anthropology and the Ethnography of "Indian Administration" / Noel Dyck 8 Canadian Anthropology and Ideas of Aboriginal Emendation / Colin Buchanan 9 A Comparative History of "Cultural Rights" in South Africa and Canada / Evie Plaice 10 Canadian Anthropologists in China Studies / Josephine Smart and Alan Smart Part 4: Documenting Institutional Relations 11 Departmental Networks in Canadian Anthropology / Regna Darnell 12 Canadian Anthropology as a Situated Conversation / Richard K. Pope 13 Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia from 1947 to the 1980s / Elvi Whittaker and Michael Ames 14 Anthropology at Universite Laval: The Early Years, 1958-70 / Marc-Adelard Tremblay 15 Expatriates in the Ivory Tower: Anthropologists in Non Anthropology University Departments / James B. Waldram and Pamela J. Downe Part 5: Connections and Comparisons 16 Constituting Canadian Anthropology / David Howes 17 The Historical Praxis of Museum Anthropology: A Canada-US Comparison / Cory Willmott 18 Commodifying North American Aboriginal Culture: A Canada-US Comparison / Kathy M'Closkey and Kevin Manuel 19 Canadian Anthropology and the Cold War / Nelson H.H. Graburn 20 Texts and Contexts in Canadian Anthropology / Penny Van Esterik 21 Just a Little Off-Centre or Not Peripheral Enough: Paradoxes for the Reproduction of Canadian Anthropology / Vered Amit Postscript Notes and Acknowledgments References Contributors Indexread more
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