Historicizing Canadian Anthropology

Edited by Julia Harrison & Regna Darnell
Categories: Social Sciences, Anthropology, History, Canadian History
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774812726, 352 pages, October 2006
Paperback : 9780774812733, 352 pages, July 2007
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774840354, 352 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774855181, 352 pages, July 2007
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Table of contents

1 Historicizing Traditions in Canadian Anthropology / Julia Harrison and Regna Darnell

Part 1: Situating Ourselves Historically and Theoretically

2 Disciplinary Tribes and Territories: Alliances and Skirmishes between Anthropology and History / A.B. McKillop

3 Toward a Historiography of Canadian Anthropology / Robert L.A. Hancock

Part 2: The Pre-professional History of Canadian Anthropology

4 The Erasure of Horatio Hale’s Contributions to Boasian Anthropology / David Nock

5 Marius Barbeau and the Methodology of Salvage Ethnography in Canada, 1911-51 / Andrew Nurse

6 Iroquoian Archaeology, the Public, and Native Communities in Victorian Ontario / Michelle A. Hamilton

Part 3: Locating our Subjects

7 Canadian Anthropology and the Ethnography of "Indian Administration" / Noel Dyck

8 Canadian Anthropology and Ideas of Aboriginal Emendation / Colin Buchanan

9 A Comparative History of "Cultural Rights" in South Africa and Canada / Evie Plaice

10 Canadian Anthropologists in China Studies / Josephine Smart and Alan Smart

Part 4: Documenting Institutional Relations

11 Departmental Networks in Canadian Anthropology / Regna Darnell

12 Canadian Anthropology as a Situated Conversation / Richard K. Pope

13 Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia from 1947 to the 1980s / Elvi Whittaker and Michael Ames

14 Anthropology at Université Laval: The Early Years, 1958-70 / Marc-Adélard Tremblay

15 Expatriates in the Ivory Tower: Anthropologists in Non Anthropology University Departments / James B. Waldram and Pamela J. Downe

Part 5: Connections and Comparisons

16 Constituting Canadian Anthropology / David Howes

17 The Historical Praxis of Museum Anthropology: A Canada-US Comparison / Cory Willmott

18 Commodifying North American Aboriginal Culture: A Canada-US Comparison / Kathy M’Closkey and Kevin Manuel

19 Canadian Anthropology and the Cold War / Nelson H.H. Graburn

20 Texts and Contexts in Canadian Anthropology / Penny Van Esterik

21 Just a Little Off-Centre or Not Peripheral Enough: Paradoxes for the Reproduction of Canadian Anthropology / Vered Amit

Postscript

Notes and Acknowledgments

References

Contributors

Index

Description

Historicizing Canadian Anthropology is the first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study in this country. It addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline: the shaping influence of Aboriginal-anthropological encounters; the challenge of compiling a history for the Canadian context; and the place of international and institutional relations. The contributors to this collection reflect on the definition and scope of the discipline and explore the degree to which a uniquely Canadian tradition affects anthropological theory, practice, and reflexivity.