Historicizing Theories, Identities, and Nations

Regna Darnell is 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).

"Historicizing Theories, Identities, and Nations mark the 11th volume in the Histories of Anthropology Annual series. Once again, editors Regna Darnell and Frederick W. Gleach have curated a stimulating array of essays that enrich scholarly inquiries into the discipline's many pasts. Synthesizing subjects that have appeared in previous iterations of the series, the 11th volume brings together 13 chapters under the banner of theories, identities, and nations and the scholarly understanding of these subjects' respective histories. In addition to these guiding terms, multiple robust and overlapping themes can be traced throughout the volume including anthropology's underappreciated interactions with other disciplines and the formulation, circulation, and modification of anthropological ideas and debates in relation to the varied geopolitical developments of the 20th century."-Nicholas Barron, Anthropology Book Forum

• Editors’ Introduction1. Franz Boas as Theorist: A Mentalist Paradigm for the Study of Mind, Body, Environment, and CultureRegna Darnell2. “We Are Also One in Our Concept of Freedom”: The Dewey-Boas Correspondence and the Invention of Postmodern Bourgeois LiberalismMichael E. Harkin3. What Would Franz Boas Have Thought about 9/11?Michael E. Harkin4. Boas and the Young Intellectuals: Exploring the American Context of Anthropology and Modern LifeDavid W. Dinwoodie5. Ruth Benedict: Synergy, Maslow, and HitlerFrank A. Salamone6. Continuity and Dislocations: A. I. Hallowell’s Physical AnthropologyJames M. Nyce and Evelyn J. Bowers7. An Epistemological Shift in the History of Anthropology: The Linguistic TurnRobert C. Ulin8. Westermarck and the Diverse Roots of RelativismAndrew P. Lyons9. Heritage Gatherers: Peasant-Mania Ethnography and Pre–World War I National Awakeners of UkraineOlga Glinskii10. Adopting Western Methods to Understand One’s Own Culture: Social and Cultural Studies by Vietnamese Scholars of the French Colonial EraNguyen Phuong NgocTranslation by Helene Tammik11. Life in Hanoi in the State Subsidy Period: Questions Raised in Social Criticism and Social ReminiscencesNguyen Van Huy12. Between Ethnos and Nation: Genealogies of DÂn Tộc in Vietnamese ContextsBradley Camp Davis13. Arthur Nole (1940–2015): Tahltan Elder, Raconteur, and FriendThomas McIlwraithContributors