Invisible Contrarian

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), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She is the author of Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (Nebraska, 2005).

“Stephen Murray emerges from these pages as a committed scholar, brilliant, incisive, tenacious, courageous, and-occasionally-grumpy and contentious. Invisible Contrarian demonstrates that signal contributions to the discipline can be made amid other work as more and more anthropologists are developing careers outside the academy.”-Andrea Laforet, coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 “No other book assembles both papers by Stephen Murray and comments on his work. This is a treasure trove for any scholar working on Murray or wanting to know more about his work in either anthropology or queer studies. Invisible Contrarian will be the definitive Murray reference.”-Yves Winkin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of anthropology and communication studies at the University of LiÈge

• List of IllustrationsPreface by Peter M. NardiPart 1. IntroductionIntroducing Stephen O. Murray as Invisible ContrarianWendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Regna Darnell1. Stephen O. Murray in His Own Words: Extracts from His JournalPrepared by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Regna DarnellPart 2. Disciplinary History2. The Breadth and Depth of Creativity in Stephen O. Murray’s Research and PublicationsWendy Leeds-Hurwitz3. Stephen O. Murray as CollaboratorRegna Darnell4. Thinking through Area in the History of AnthropologyRobert Oppenheim5. “aids and the Social Imaginary” Thirty Years Later: A Controversial Early Skirmish in the Decolonizing of AnthropologyRalph BoltonPart 3. Homosexualities6. Stephen O. Murray’s Legacy in the Comparative Study of HomosexualitiesBarry D Adam7. Stephen O. Murray’s Contributions to Homosexuality Studies in Latin AmericaMilton Machuca-GÁlvez8. Stephen O. Murray and the Development of Queer African StudiesMarc EpprechtPart 4. Stephen O. Murray Gets the Last Word9. John Gumperz in Context: 1977 and 1992 InterviewsStephen O. Murray10. Doing History of AnthropologyStephen O. Murray11. What Is a Conversation (in Anglo America)?Stephen O. Murray12. Introduction to Male Sexual SubjectivitiesStephen O. Murray13. What Had BeenStephen O. MurrayAppendixContributorsIndex