Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical
orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of
Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an
academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. History of Theory and Method in
Anthropology reveals the theory schools, institutions, and social
networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the
ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell's
fifty-year career entails foundational writings in the four fields
of the discipline: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics,
and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and
fieldwork subjects include Claude Levi-Strauss, Franz Boas,
Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Wesley Powell, Frederica de Laguna, Dell
Hymes, George Stocking Jr., and Anthony F. C. Wallace, as well as
nineteenth-century Native language classifications, ethnography,
ethnohistory, social psychology, structuralism, rationalism,
biologism, mentalism, race science, human nature and cultural
relativism, ethnocentrism, standpoint-based epistemology,
collaborative research, and applied anthropology. History of Theory
and Method in Anthropology is an essential volume for scholars and
undergraduate and graduate students to enter into the history of
the inductive theory schools and methodologies of the Americanist
tradition and its legacies.
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