Local Knowledge, Global Stage

Regna Darnell is the Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual-Theory, Ethnography, Activism (Nebraska, 2015) and general editor of the multivolume series The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer of anthropology and the curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997).

Histories of Anthropology Annual has saved and transmitted many memorable episodes from the adventure that we call our discipline. For these nine memories, and for all those captured in previous volumes, we can thank Darnell and Gleach."-Anthropology Review Database

• List of IllustrationsEditors’ Introduction1. Anthropologists and the Bible: The Marett Lecture, April 2012Adam Kuper2. Dead and Living Authorities in The Legend of Perseus: Animism and Christianity in the Evolutionist ArchiveFrederico D. Rosa3. Anthropology in Portugal: The Case of the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (SPAE), 1918PatrÍcia Ferraz de Matos4. A View from the West: The Institute of Social Science and the AmazonPriscila Faulhaber5. Scientific Diplomacy and the Establishment of an Australian Chair of Anthropology, 1914–25Geoffrey Gray6. The Saga of the L. H. Morgan Archive, or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone of Soviet EthnographySergei A. Kan and Dmitry V. Arzyutov7. “I Wrote All My Notes in Shorthand”: A First Glance into the Treasure Chest of Franz Boas’s Shorthand Field NotesRainer Hatoum8. Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on Ethnographic Practice in the Archive of Dr. Susan GollaDenise Nicole Green9. The File Hills Farm Colony LegacyCheyanne DesnomieContributors