Theorizing the Americanist Tradition

Published by University of Toronto Press 1999

Theorizing the Americanist Tradition

Edited by: Lisa Phillips Valentine and Regna Darnell

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487575076

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About this book

The volume juxtaposes Canadian and American theoretical work on language and revitalizes a shared tradition centred on the study of meaning. Readers are invited to enter this vibrant and open-ended Americanist discourse.

Author / Editor information

Valentine Lisa Phillips :

LISA PHILIPS VALENTINE is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario.Darnell Regna :

REGINA DARNELL is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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1 Introduction: Timely Conversations Lisa Philips Valentine and Regna Darnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King Robin Ridington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
... THE AMERICANIST TRADITION
From History
3 Theorizing Americanist Anthropology: Continuities from the B .A.E. to the Boasians Regna Darnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4 The Non-Eclipse of Americanist Anthropology during the l 930s and 1940s Stephen O. Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
5 Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition Raymond D. Fogelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
To the Present
6 Boas on the Threshold of Ethnopoetics Dell Hymes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
7 Cultural Relativism in the Americanist Tradition: From Anthropological Method to Indigenous Emancipation John J. Cove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Addressing Authenticity
8 Authenticity and Aggiornamento in Spoken Texts and Their Critical Edition H.C. Wolfart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
9 Reflections on Culture, History, and Authenticity Richard J. Preston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
10 Dialogues between Worlds: Mesoamerica after and before the European Invasion Dennis Tedlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
CHANGING TRADITIONS
In Text and Literacy
11 The Meaning of Writing and Text in a Changing Americanist Tradition Jane H. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
12 Continuities and Renewals in Mayan Literacy and Calendrics Barbara Tedlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
13 Why Collect Texts? The Native, Evangelical, and Americanist Traditions among the Tuscaroras Blair A. Rudes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
14 George A. Dorsey, James R. Murie, and the Textual Documentation of Skiri Pawnee Douglas R. Parks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
15 'George Sword Wrote These': Lakota Culture as Lakota Text Raymond J. Demallie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
16 Ella Cara Deloria: Early Lakota Ethnologist (Newly Discovered Novelist) Bea Medicine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
In Linguistics and Education
17 Past and New Directions for Fieldwork in Ethnolinguistics: The Case of Micmac (Northern Dialects) Danielle E. Cyr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
18 Nisga' a Studies and the Americanist Tradition: Bringing First Nations Research and Teaching into the Academy Margaret Seguin Anderson and Deanna Nyce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
19 Policy on Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Notes on Status Planning Barbara Burnaby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
And Changing Discourses
20 'Interpersonal Relations' in a Kalapalo Shaman's Narrative Ellen B. Basso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
21 Sequentiality and Temporalization in the Narrative Construction of a South American Cholera Epidemic Charles L. Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
22 Personal Agency in Systemic Discourse Lisa Philips Valentine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
THEORIZING ACROSS BOUNDARIES: THE AMERICANIST TRADITION AND OTHERS
23 'Critical Linguistics': Alternative Approaches to Text in the American Tradition Karen L. Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
24 Current Extensions of Sapir and Whorf in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science: Cognitive Styles and Ontological Categories J. Peter Denny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
25 Anticipating Queer Theory William L. Leap Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 406

eBook

Published: December 15, 1999
ISBN: 9781487575076