Synopses & Reviews
Excluded Ancestors focuses on little-known scholars who contributed significantly to the anthropological work of their time, but whose work has since been marginalized due to categorical boundaries of race, class, gender, citizenship, institutional and disciplinary affiliation, and English-language proficiency.
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; The essays in Excluded Ancestors illustrate varied processes of inclusion and exclusion in the history of anthropology, examining the careers of John William Jackson, the members of the Hampton Folk-Lore Society, Charlotte Gower Chapman, Lucie Varga, Marius Barbeau, and Sol Tax. A final essay analyzes notions of the canon and considers the place of a classic ethnographic area, highland New Guinea, in anthropological canon-formation. Contributors include Peter Pels, Lee Baker, Frances Slaney, Maria Lepowsky, George Stocking, Ronald Stade, and Douglas Dalton.
Review
and#8220;An important book, one which will repay reading and re-reading by students of social science, of nationalism, and of Quebec.and#8221;and#8212;Queenand#8217;s Quarterly
Review
and#147;The hallmark of [the History of Anthropology series] is meticulous research into the lives of our predecessors, whose intellectual and personal relationships are carefully reconstructed from private papers, correspondences, and institutional archives. . . . [Volume 9] is one of the strongest volumes in the series and the most gender-balanced.and#8221;and#151;Jocelyn Linnekin,
American AnthropologistSynopsis
Richard Handlerandrsquo;s pathbreaking study of nationalistic politics in Quebec is a striking and successful example of the new experimental type of ethnography, interdisciplinary in nature and intensively concerned with rhetoric and not only of anthropologists but also of scholars in a wide range of fields, and it is likely to stir sharp controversy.
and#160;and#160;and#160; Bringing together methodologies of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy, as well as anthropology, Handler centers on the period 1976andndash;1984, during which the independantiste Parti Quandeacute;bandeacute;ois was in control of the provincial government and nationalistic sentiment was especially strong. Handler draws on historical and archival research, and on interviews with Quebec and Canadian government officials, as he addresses the central question: Given the similarities between the epistemologies of both anthropology and nationalist ideology, how can one write an ethnography of nationalism that does not simply reproduceandmdash;and thereby endorseandmdash;nationalistic beliefs? Handler analyzes various responses to the nationalist vision of a threatened existence. He examines cultural tourism, ideology of the Quebec government, legislations concerning historical preservation, language legislation and policies towards immigrants and andldquo;cultural minorities.andrdquo; He concludes with a thoughtful meditation on the futility of nationalisms.
Synopsis
Excluded Ancestorsand#160;focuses on little-known scholars who contributed significantly to the anthropological work of their time, but whose work has since been marginalized due to categorical boundaries of race, class, gender, citizenship, institutional and disciplinary affiliation, and English-language proficiency.
About the Author
Richard Handler is a professor of anthropology and director of the Global Development Studies Program at the University of Virginia. His many books include
Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society and HOA Volume 11,
Central Sites, Peripheral Visions: Cultural and Institutional Crossings in the History of Anthropology, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Table of Contents
Boundaries and Transitions
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Occult Truths: Race, Conjecture, and Theosophy in Victorian Anthropology
Peter Pels
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Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift: The Mission of the Hampton Folk-Lore Society, 1893andndash;1899
Lee D. Baker
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Working for a Canadian Sense of Place(s): The Role of Landscape Painters in Marius Barbeauandrsquo;s Ethnology
Frances M. Slaney
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Charlotte Gower and the Subterranean History of Anthropology
Maria Lepowsky
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andldquo;Do Good, Young Manandrdquo;: Sol Tax and the World Mission of Liberal Democratic Anthropology
George W. Stocking, Jr.
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andldquo;In the immediate vicinity a world has come to an endandrdquo;: Lucie Varga as an Ethnographer of National Socialismandmdash;A Retrospective Review Essay
Ronald Stade
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Melanesian Can(n)ons: Paradoxes and Prospects in Melanesian Ethnography
Doug Dalton
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Index