Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 2 Histories of Anthropology Annual Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach editorial board Lee D. Baker, Duke University Paul A. Erickson, Saint Mary’s University Carole Farber, University of Western Ontario Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell University Abdellah Hammoudi, Princeton University Robert L. Hancock, Victoria, British Columbia Richard Handler, University of Virginia Curtis M. Hinsley, Northern Arizona University Jason Baird Jackson, Indiana University Henrika Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania Christer Lindberg, Lund University Jonathan Marks, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Marie Mauzé, l’Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Tim May, University of Salford Stephen O. Murray, El Instituto Obregón H. Glenn Penny, University of Iowa Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Cornell University Arlene Torres, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign Susan R. Trencher, George Mason University Alison Wylie, University of Washington Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 2 edited by Regna Darnell & Frederic W. Gleach university of nebraska press lincoln & london ∫ 2006 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ! issn: 1557–637x isbn-13: 978-0-8032-6663-6 isbn-10: 0-8032-6663-4 Contents Editors’ Introduction vii 1. The Birth of Ciencias Antropológicas at the University of Buenos Aires, 1955–1965 1 Rosana Guber and Sergio Visacovsky 2. ‘‘My Old Friend in a Dead-end of Empiricism and Skepticism’’: Bogoras, Boas, and the Politics of Soviet Anthropology of the Late 1920s–Early 1930s 33 Sergei Kan 3. Taking Ethnological Training outside the Classroom: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition as Field School 69 Nancy J. Parezo and Don D. Fowler 4. Presentist History as a Means to Overturn Qualified Authority: A (False) Warrant for a New Archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s 103 R. Lee Lyman 5. ‘‘Pigs for Dance Songs’’: Reo Fortune’s Empathetic Ethnography of the Arapesh Roads 123 Lise Dobrin and Ira Bashkow 6. Diamond Jenness’s Arctic Ethnography and the Potential for a Canadian Anthropology 155 Robert L. A. Hancock 7. Reflections on Departmental Traditions and Social Cohesion in American Anthropology 212 Regna Darnell 8. Anthropology, Theory, and Research in Iroquois Studies, 1980–1990: Reflections from a Disability Studies Perspective 242 Gail Landsman 9. A Swedish Ethnographer in Sulawesi: Walter Kaudern 264 Christer Lindberg 10. Culture and Personality In Henry’s Backyard: Boasian War Allegories in Children’s Science Writ Large Stories 273 Elizabeth Stassinos List of Contributors 285 Editors’ Introduction Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario Frederic W. Gleach, Cornell University As we write these words, the first volume of Histories of Anthropology Annual is wending its way from page proofs to print, in time for sales at the American Anthropological Association meetings in November/ December. Between that volume and this one lies considerable enrichment of our own understanding of the state of the art in history of anthropology in North America, a process that we expect to be ongoing. We have as- sembled volume 2 with the aid of a distinguished and enthusiastic inter- national editorial board. Even without the exposure of extant published volumes there has been sufficient critical mass to fill two volumes on an annual basis, and we have a modest backlog toward volume 3. Each volume can certainly stand alone, but we are optimistic that the presence of this regular publication outlet geared to the history of anthropology will contribute to a florescence in this area of specialization. Our task for the coming year will be to further widen the scope of papers presented and to establish a subscription base. As is appropriate for a journal-like agglomerate of current research in a subdiscipline, there is no single thrust to the papers included here. But several clusters of concerns permeate the papers. First, several anthropol- ogists have contributed historical papers arising from the areas where they have done their ethnographic work. These disciplinary historians com- bine the methods of archival history with those of ethnographic inter- pretation and documentation. Their history of anthropology is treated as an anthropological problem. Second, historical research in anthropology often plays around the role of significant figures in the discipline. Profes- sional biography stands alongside the life-history methodology of eth- nographers in the field. Third, there is a concern with documenting the particular as well as contrastive features of national traditions; Argentine, U.S., British, Canadian, Swedish, and Russian traditions are explored in this volume. Fourth, there is a belief that institutional infrastructures for anthropological practice provide context for lives and works in the past, with implications for present and future. Finally, interpretative traditions and practices within subdisciplines of anthropology are salient for con- tributors in very different ways. These heuristic categories intersect and crosscut, with most papers fall- ing across several. This is, in part, the claim we stake with the title ‘‘His- tories of Anthropology.’’ There is a plurality to what we separate out for historicist examination as well as a multiplicity among the audience(s) to which we direct these examinations. Many of the papers are open ended in the sense that their histories raise questions of some urgency for the prac- tice of our discipline. We encourage all interested parties to participate in these exchanges as readers and writers, and we welcome submissions on any dimension of our discipline’s histories. viii Editors’ Introduction Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 2