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Indigenous visions : rediscovering the world of Franz Boas
"In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and indentity sprang from colonization and empire."--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300196511
- Physical Description: xxii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Outgrowth of an interdisciplinary conference in commemoration of the centennial of the publication of Franz Boas's The mind of primitive man, held September 15-17, 2011, at Yale University."--(Page vii).
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part one. Origins and erasures : the emergence of a Boasian circle. 1. Transformation masks : recollecting the Indigenous origins of global consciousness / Isaiah Lorado Wilner ; 2. Franz Boas in Africana philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon ; 3. Expressive enlightenment : subjectivity and solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma / Ryan Carr ; 4. "Culture" crosses the Atlantic : the German sources of The mind of primitive man / Harry Liebersohn -- Part two. Worlds of enlightenment : Boasian thought as process and practice. 5. Rediscovering the world of Franz Boas : anthropology, equality/diversity, and world peace / James Tully ; 6. Of two minds about minding language in culture / Michael Silverstein ; 7. Why white people love Franz Boas; or, The grammar of Indigenous dispossession / Audra Simpson -- Part three. Routes of race : the transnational networks of ethnicity. 8. Utter confusion and contradiction : Franz Boas and the problem of human complexion / Martha Hodes ; 9. The death of William Jones : Indian, anthropologist, murder victim / Kiara M. Vigil ; 10. Woman on the verge of a cultural breakdown : Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the racial privilege of Boasian relativism / Eve Dunbar ; 11. "A new Indian intelligentsia" : Archie Phinney and the search for a radical Native American modernity / Benjamin Balthaser -- Part four. Boasiana : the global flow of the culture concept. 12. The river of salvation flows through Africa : Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the redemption of the culture concept / Sean Hanretta ; 13. A two-headed thinker : Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the reinvention of Brazilian identity / Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke ; 14. Seeing like an Inca : Julio C. Tello, Indigenous archaeology, and pre-Columbian trepanation in Peru / Christopher Heaney.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | GN 21 .B56 I53 2018 | 290229 | Stacks | Available | - |