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Tables of Contents for Invisible Genealogies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xi
Series Editors' Introduction
xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments
xvii
List of Abbreviations
xxvii
Introduction: The Invisibility of Americanist Genealogies
1
1
Resuscitating the Habits of Historicism
1
7
Recovering the Complexity of Our History
8
3
Distinctive Features of the Americanist Tradition
11
10
Why These Genealogies Are Invisible
21
7
Why the Americanist Tradition Persists
28
2
The Plan of the Work
30
3
History and Psychology as Anthropological Problems
33
36
Boas and the Boasians in the History of American Anthropology
33
7
History and Psychology as the Poles of Boasian Theory
40
7
The Boasian Model of Culture Change: Diffusion
47
4
The Sapir Model of Culture Change: Genetic Relationship
51
10
Boas's Reaction to the Sapir Classification
61
4
Disciplinary Consequences
65
4
Culture as Superorganic
69
36
Culture as Anthropology's Autonomous Level of Explanation
72
8
The Dream of Synthesis and the Failure of Nerve
80
9
Complexity and the Reformulation of the Culture Concept
89
6
Style, Women's Fashion, and Cultural Wholes
95
2
Setting the Stage for a New Concept of Culture
97
8
Culture Internalized
105
32
Anthropology without the Superorganic
107
4
``Standpoint'' and the Individual in Culture
111
6
The Anthropologist's Quest for ``Genuine'' Culture
117
4
The Need for Interdisciplinary Triangulation
121
16
Philosophizing with the ``Other''
137
36
Primitive Man as Philosopher
138
11
The Individual in History
149
5
The Counterargument for Systematic Philosophy
154
3
The Closing of the Philosophical Mind
157
5
Are the Alternatives Philosophies?
162
2
In Search of Contemporary ``Primitive'' Philosophers
164
9
Linguistic Relativity and Cultural Relativism
173
34
Benjamin Lee Whorf as Core Sapirian Linguist
175
10
The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
185
3
Linguistic Relativity and Analytic Philosophy
188
3
Ruth Benedict and the Arc of Cultural Selection
191
9
Cognitive Science vs. Grammatical Categories
200
7
The Challenge of Life Histories
207
34
Variable Uses of the Life History
207
3
The Baseline: American Indian Life
210
14
Boasian Explorations of the Arts
224
6
Transmitting Disciplinary Wisdom: In the Company of Man
230
5
American Indian Intellectuals Relegated to Ethnohistory
235
6
Blurred Genres of Ethnography and Fiction
241
34
Psychology and Culture in the New Ethnography: A Irving Hallowell among the Ojibwes
242
6
What Is That Coyote Up to Now? Native Writers and Anthropological Stereoscopy
248
3
Anthropologically Sophisticated Literature: The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
251
6
On the Anthropological Applications of an English Degree
257
6
What if the Ethnographer Writes Well? Reading the New Ethnographies
263
12
Will the Real Americanists Please Stand?
275
34
Rhetorics of Continuity and Discontinuity
275
14
Claude Levi-Strauss as Self-Incorporated Americanist
289
1
Clifford Geertz as Nuanced Americanist
289
7
The Illusory ``Experimental Moment'' of Writing Culture
296
5
The Rhetoric of Normal Science
301
2
Interdisciplinary Misreadings of Anthropology
303
6
Reconstructing the Metanarrative of Anthropology
309
32
Deconstructing ``Us'' and ``Them''
309
14
Race and Racism: From Biology to Culture
323
5
Identity Politics and Standpoint Epistemology
328
7
The Anthropologist as Public Intellectual: Educating an Audience for Contemporary Anthropology
335
6
Bibliography
341
22
Index
363