Indigenous visions : rediscovering the world of Franz Boas /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Blackhawk, Ned (Editor), Wilner, Isaiah Lorado (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Series:	Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Subjects:	Boas, Franz, > 1858-1942. Boas, Franz, > 1858-1942 > Influence. Boas, Franz, > 1858-1942. > Mind of primitive man. Indigenous peoples > Social conditions. Indian intellectuals. Indigenous peoples > Ethnic identity. Indians > Ethnic identity. Cultural pluralism. Ethnology > History > 20th century. Anthropology > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Part one. Origins and erasures : the emergence of a Boasian circle. 1. Transformation masks : recollecting the indigenous origins of global consciousness / Isaiah Lorado Wilner ; 2. Franz Boas in Africana philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon ; 3. Expressive enlightenment : subjectivity and solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma / Ryan Carr ; 4. "Culture" crosses the Atlantic : the German sources of The mind of primitive man / Harry Liebersohn
Part two. Worlds of enlightenment : Boasian thought as process and practice. 5. Rediscovering the world of Franz Boas : anthropology, equality/diversity, and world peace / James Tully ; 6. Of two minds about minding language in culture / Michael Silverstein ; 7. Why white people love Franz Boas; or, The grammar of indigenous dispossession / Audra Simpson
Part three. Routes of race : the transnational networks of ethnicity. 8. Utter confusion and contradiction : Franz Boas and the problem of human complexion / Martha Hodes ; 9. The death of William Jones : Indian, anthropologist, murder victim / Kiana M. Vigil ; 10. Woman on the verge of a cultural breakdown : Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the racial privilege of Boasian relativism / Eve Dunbar ; 11. "A new Indian intelligentsia" : Archie Phinney and the search for a radical Native American modernity / Benjamin Balthaser
Part four. Boasiana : the global flow of the culture concept. 12. The river of salvation flows through Africa : Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the redemption of the culture concept / Sean Hanretta ; 13. A two-headed thinker : Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the reinvention of Brazilian identity / Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke ; 14. Seeing like an Inca : Julio C. Tello, indigenous archaeology, and pre-Columbian trepanation in Peru / Christopher Heaney
List of contributors
Index.