Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022). Darnell is the general editor of The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition series and coeditor of the Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer and 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).

“This collection of essays is a remarkable and important contribution to the history of anthropology. It is also a contribution to our disciplinary understanding of methods development, public anthropology, and the ways in which anthropology is applied. The papers related to Nancy O. Lurie are particularly significant for our understanding of methods development.”-Thomas McIlwraith, author of “We Are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia

• List of Illustrations Editors’ Introduction by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach 1. Rooting in the Subterranean: Underground Dwellers in Northern Indigenous Narratives and Metropolitan Anthropological TheoriesDmitry V. Arzyutov 2. Between Polish and British Academia and Macedonian Fieldwork: JÓzef Obrębski and the First Functionalist Research of the European VillageAnna Engelking 3. “This Incredibly Fast Upswing of the American Negroes”: Felix von Luschan’s “Die Neger in den Vereinigten Staaten” (1915)John David Smith and Sylvia Angelica Smith 4. The Institutionalization of Anthropology in Portugal: Contributions from the University of CoimbraPatrÍcia Ferraz de Matos 5. Between Science and Ideology: An Intellectual Biography of AntÓnio Mendes Correia (1888–1960)PatrÍcia Ferraz de Matos 6. John Wesley Powell, John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, and the Battle over American Indian LanguagesLeila Monaghan 7. The Relationship between Literature and Ethnography: The Example of Edward Sapir, 1917–22James M. Nyce 8. Edward Sapir, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Harold Lasswell Collaborations: Real and ImaginedRichard J. Preston 9. Silenced Bodies: The Accession of Mortal Remains in the Museum of Ethnography, 1904–16, during the Argentinian Gran Chaco Military CampaignsSandra Tolosa and Lena DÁvila A Special Style: Nancy Oestreich Lurie’s Legacy of Engaged AnthropologySpecial section edited by Grant Arndt and Larry Nesper 10. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s WorkLarry Nesper 11. “Pow-Wow-How-Taxed-We-Are”: Nancy Lurie and Sol TaxJudy Daubenmier 12. Nancy Lurie and Ho-Chunk Reorganization: Action Anthropology, Indigenous Nation Rebuilding, and the Struggle for DecolonizationGrant Arndt 13. Unmasking “The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness”: Nancy Lurie, Jean Nicolet, and the Ho-ChunksPatrick J. Jung 14. Merging Worlds: Writing to Be Read, Hanging Out with Indian PeopleAlice B. Kehoe and Dawn Scher Thomae 15. Introduction to Nancy Lurie’s “Applied Anthropology”Joshua Smith 16. Applied AnthropologyNancy Oestreich Lurie 17. Nancy Oestreich Lurie: BibliographyPatrick J. Jung Contributors