Anthropologists

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Jenness on Eskimo Art: Documentation With Sympathy and no Pretension

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anne McDougall
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 22-29
Description
Profiles an anthropologist who identified two pre-historic Inuit cultures as well as being one of the earliest writers on Inuit art. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.
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"The Laying Aside of a Shield": Ethnographic Power Struggles in Oliver La Farge's Indian Fiction

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik Trump
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
Description
Literary criticism piece in which the author considers the fictional writings and autobiography of Oliver La Farge, who was both a novelist and an anthropologist; argues that La Farge’s work engages in a process of critique of the anthropology and ethnography disciplines.
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The Mentoring of Miss Deloria: Poetics, Politics, and the Test of Tradition

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah L. Bonnie
Susan H. Krook
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 281-305
Description

Article examines Ella Cara Deloria’s life and career as an anthropologist in the context of her relationship with her mentors, relationship with the discipline of anthropology, and personal and community life.

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Notes on the Fox Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Jones
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 24, no. 92, April-June 1911, pp. 209-237
Description
Observations on customs, stories including Creation, transcribed by Franz Boas from the manuscripts of. William Jones (1871-1909) the first Native American to obtain a Ph.D. in anthropology.
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"Open Containers": Sherman Alexie's Drunken Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen F. Evans
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 46-72
Description
Illustrates that works by Sherman Alexie, both poems and stories, use stereotypical and conventional character types to construct a realistic literary document.
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Perfect Disguise: Frank Speck's Pilgrimage to Ktaqamkuk - the Place of Fog - 1914

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David T. McNab
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 85-104
Description
An anthropologist's career and research about the Beothuk and Mi'kmaq. Speck was a student of Franz Boas, often referred to as the "father of American anthropology."
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Plains Indian Native Literatures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas R. Parks
Raymond J. DeMallie
boundary 2, vol. 19, no. 3, 1492-1992: American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, Autumn, 1992, pp. 105-147
Description
Comments on two collections of Native American literature that developed due to contact between Native Americans and anthropologists.
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Preserving the Anthropological Record: a Decade of CoPAR Initiatives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Parezo
Don D. Fowler
Sydel Silverman
Current Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 1, February 2003, pp. 111-117
Description
Overview of the Council for Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) activities aimed at preserving a wide range of anthropological research.
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Response to Rita Miraglia's Did I Hear That Right? One Anthropologist's Reaction to Colleague's Testimony in a Court Case Involving Alaska Native Aboriginal Hunting and Fishing Rights on the Outer Continental Shelf

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christopher B. Wooley
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue of Indigenous Policy: Anthropology, Archaeology and Litigation - Alaska Style, Spring, 2012, pp. 1-2
Description
Rebuttal to a fellow anthropologists criticism of his witness report and sworn testimony.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brewster Fitz
Brenda J. Child
Laura Adams Weaver
Christina Gish Berndt
Lee Schweninger
Philip A. May
William Willard
Robert Morrissey
Laurie Osher
Peter A. Leach
Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Maria Orban
Alfred Young Man
Sidner Larson
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 203-254
Description
Book reviews of: American Indian Literary Nationalism by Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior with foreword by Simon J.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michelle R. Kloppenburg
Melissa Hearn
L. G. Moses
Frederick H. White
Barbara Iliff Brotherton
Rebecca Dobkins
Chris B. Wooley
Ward Churchill
Raymond Wilson
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 181-249
Description
Book reviews of: All My Sins Are Relatives by William S. Penn. Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose edited by Joseph Bruchac. Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains by Howard L.
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Social Transition in the North: Research Team Obituaries

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph G. Jorgensen
Igor Krupnik
Kerry Feldman
Debra Sabo
Peter Collings
Anna Kerttula
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 1, 2004, pp. 59-69
Description
Brief, biographical essay regarding several researchers who died in a Bering Sea boating accident. Includes: Steven L. McNabb, Aleksandr I. Pika, William W. Richards, Richard G. Condon, Sireniki Villagers
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A Stone for Yontocket

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. Breck Parkman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, The California Indians, Autumn, 1989, pp. 529-534
Description
The author describes his own experience of finding spiritual balance through a visit to the Tolowa's Yontockey village. The author examines how he found this spiritual balance, how he came to this realization and its implications.
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Trails to Tiburon

Alternate Title
The 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W.J. McGee
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Hazel McFeely Fontana
Bernard L. Fontana
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, Winter, January 1, 2002, pp. 160-163
Description
Book review of: Trails to Tiburon: the 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W. J. McGee edited by Hazel McFeely Fontana and Bernard L. Fontana.
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Travels With Sally

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. C. F. Rentz
Aboriginal History, vol. 23, 1999, pp. [37]-42
Description
Comments on a friendship formed with anthropologist, Sally White, and entomologist Michael White.
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