Indigenous Visions
Subtitle: rediscovering the world of Franz Boas
By: edited by Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner
Series: The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity; Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780300196511
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social conditions; Cultural pluralism; Influence; Indigenous peoples
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Origins and Erasures: The Emergence of a Boasian Circle; 1. Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness; 2. Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy; 3. Expressive Enlightenment: Subjectivity and Solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma; 4. "Culture" Crosses the Atlantic: The German Sources of The Mind of Primitive Man; Part Two: Worlds of Enlightenment: Boasian Thought as Process and Practice; title: 5. Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas: Anthropology, Equality / Diversity, and World Peace ; 6. Of Two Minds About Minding Language in Culture; 7. Why White People Love Franz Boas; or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession; Part Three: Routes of Race: The Transnational Networks of Ethnicity; 8. Utter Confusion and Contradiction: Franz Boas and the Problem of Human Complexion; 9. The Death of William Jones: Indian, Anthropologist, Murder Victim; 10. Woman on the Verge of a Cultural Breakdown: Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the Racial Privilege of Boasian Relativism; title: 11. "A New Indian Intelligentsia": Archie Phinney and the Search for a Radical Native American Modernity; 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; 13. A Two-Headed Thinker: Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the Reinvention of Brazilian Identity; 14. Seeing Like an Inca: Julio C. Tello, Indigenous Archaeology, and Pre-Columbian Trepanation in Peru; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z