Theorizing the Americanist Tradition / / ed. by Lisa Phillips Valentine, Regna Darnell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Karen L.,; Basso, Ellen B.,; Briggs, Charles L.,; Burnaby, Barbara,; Cove, John J.,; Cyr, Danielle E.,; Darnell, Regna,; Demallie, Raymond J.,; Denny, J. Peter,; Fogelson, Raymond D.,; Hill, Jane H.,; Hymes, Dell,; Leap, William L.,; Medicine, Bea,; Murray, Stephen O.,; Nyce, Deanna,; Parks, Douglas R.,; Philips Valentine, Lisa,; Preston, Richard J.,; Ridington, Robin,; Rudes, Blair A.,; Seguin Anderson, Margaret,; Tedlock, Barbara,; Tedlock, Dennis,; Valentine, Lisa Philips,; Wolfart, H.C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Darnell, Regna,; Valentine, Lisa Phillips,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)

This collection challenges the prevailing notion that the Americanist Tradition in anthropology, typified by Franz Boas and his colleagues, is atheoretical. Contributions from twenty five distinguished scholars are brought together here to provide a comprehensive, accessible, state-of-the-art appraisal of interdisciplinary research in the areas of anthropology, linguistics, and Native Studies. Participants in this dialogue accepted the challenge of making their underlying theoretical assumptions explicit. Topics range from historical debates in anthropology and linguistics to recent innovations within the Americanist Tradition. The search for authenticity is brought to bear on discussion of changing traditions in texts and literacy, in linguistics and education, and in contemporary discourse spanning the Americas. Debate on the future of the Americanist Tradition forms a critical part of this collection. The volume juxtaposes Canadian and American theoretical work on language and revitalizes a shared tradition centred on the study of meaning. Readers are invited to enter this vibrant and open-ended Americanist discourse.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Timely Conversations -- 2. Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King -- ... THE AMERICANIST TRADITION -- From History -- 3 Theorizing Americanist Anthropology: Continuities from the B .A.E. to the Boasians -- 4 The Non-Eclipse of Americanist Anthropology during the l 930s and 1940s -- 5 Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition -- To the Present -- 6 Boas on the Threshold of Ethnopoetics -- 7 Cultural Relativism in the Americanist Tradition: From Anthropological Method to Indigenous Emancipation -- Addressing Authenticity -- 8 Authenticity and Aggiornamento in Spoken Texts and Their Critical Edition -- 9 Reflections on Culture, History, and Authenticity -- 10 Dialogues between Worlds: Mesoamerica after and before the European Invasion -- CHANGING TRADITIONS -- In Text and Literacy -- 11 The Meaning of Writing and Text in a Changing Americanist Tradition -- 12 Continuities and Renewals in Mayan Literacy and Calendrics -- 13 Why Collect Texts? The Native, Evangelical, and Americanist Traditions among the Tuscaroras -- 14 George A. Dorsey, James R. Murie, and the Textual Documentation of Skiri Pawnee -- 15 'George Sword Wrote These': Lakota Culture as Lakota Text -- 16 Ella Cara Deloria: Early Lakota Ethnologist (Newly Discovered Novelist) -- In Linguistics and Education -- 17 Past and New Directions for Fieldwork in Ethnolinguistics: The Case of Micmac (Northern Dialects) -- 18 Nisga' a Studies and the Americanist Tradition: Bringing First Nations Research and Teaching into the Academy -- 19 Policy on Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Notes on Status Planning -- And Changing Discourses -- 20 'Interpersonal Relations' in a Kalapalo Shaman's Narrative -- 21 Sequentiality and Temporalization in the Narrative Construction of a South American Cholera Epidemic -- 22 Personal Agency in Systemic Discourse -- THEORIZING ACROSS BOUNDARIES: THE AMERICANIST TRADITION AND OTHERS -- 23 'Critical Linguistics': Alternative Approaches to Text in the American Tradition -- 24 Current Extensions of Sapir and Whorf in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science: Cognitive Styles and Ontological Categories -- 25 Anticipating Queer Theory -- Contributors