Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association

by Darnell, Regna; Gleach, Frederic W.; American Anthropological Association

• ISBN13: 9780803217201
• ISBN10: 080321720X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

The American Anthropological Association during its past century has borne witness to profound social, cultural, and technical changes, transformations that have affected anthropologists and their consultants across the planet. Anthropology in the twenty-first century continues to evolve in response to such global changes; it is an increasingly complex and sophisticated discipline, with a dynamic range of flourishing sub-specializations.Contained in this volume are memorable glimpses of the 77 men and women who have led the American Anthropological Association during the past century. These include Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Anthony F. C. Wallace, John Swanton, Dell Hymes, A. L. Kroeber, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Roy Rappaport, Clark Wissler, A. I. Hallowell, Leslie White, Frederic Ward Putnam, and Annette Weiner. The Association's presidents include a roster of influential scholars from different sub-specializations of anthropology and they cumulatively reflect integral trends in interpretive thought and fieldwork methodology that have emerged over the past ten decades. For each president there is a photograph and a biography replete with personal anecdotes, career highlights, and information about his or her contribution to the development of the discipline of anthropology. Important works by each president are listed separately in the back of the volume.Regna Darnell is a professor of anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology and Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska 2001). Frederic W. Gleach is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska 1997).

Author Biography

Regna Darnell is a professor of anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology and Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska 2001).



Frederic W. Gleach is a historical anthropologist and a visiting scholar at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska 1997).

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction	ix
Presidential Portraits
1902--1904: W J McGee	1	(4)
1905--1906: Frederic Ward Putnam	5	(4)
1907--1908: Franz Boas	9	(4)
1909--1910: William Henry Holmes	13	(4)
1911--1912: Jesse Walter Fewkes	17	(4)
1913--1914: Roland B. Dixon	21	(4)
1915--1916: Frederick Webb Hodge	25	(4)
1917--1918: Alfred L. Kroeber	29	(4)
1919--1920: Clark Wissler	33	(4)
1921--1922: William Curtis Farabee	37	(4)
1923--1924: Walter Hough	41	(4)
1925--1926: Ales Hardlicka	45	(4)
1927--1928: Marshall H. Saville	49	(4)
1929--1930: Alfred M. Tozzer	53	(4)
1931: George G. MacCurdy	57	(4)
1932: John R. Swanton	61	(4)
1933--1934: Fay-Cooper Cole	65	(4)
1935: Robert H. Lowie	69	(4)
1936: Herbert J. Spinden	73	(4)
1937: Nels C. Nelson	77	(4)
1938: Edward Sapir	81	(4)
1939: Diamond Jenness	85	(4)
1940: John M. Cooper	89	(4)
1941: Elsie Clews Parsons	93	(4)
1942: A.V. Kidder	97	(4)
1943: Leslie Spier	101	(4)
1944: Robert Redfield	105	(4)
1945: Neil M. Judd	109	(4)
1946: Ralph Linton	113	(4)
January--May 1947: Ruth Benedict	117	(4)
May--December 1947: Clyde Kluckhohn	121	(4)
1948: Harry Shapiro	125	(4)
1949: A. Irving Hallowell	129	(4)
1950: Ralph Beals	133	(4)
1951: William W. Howells	137	(4)
1952: Wendell C. Bennett	141	(4)
1953: Fred Eggan	145	(4)
1954: John O. Brew	149	(4)
1955: George P. Murdock	153	(4)
1956: Emil W. Haury	157	(4)
1957: E. Adamson Hoebel	161	(4)
1958: Harry Hoijer	165	(4)
1959: Sol Tax	169	(4)
1960: Margaret Mead	173	(4)
1961: Gordon R. Willey	177	(4)
1962: Sherwood Washburn	181	(4)
1963: Morris E. Opler	185	(4)
1964: Leslie A. White	189	(4)
1965: Alexander Spoehr	193	(4)
1966: John P. Gillin	197	(4)
1967: Frederica de Laguna	201	(4)
1968: Irving Rouse	205	(4)
1969: Cora Du Bois	209	(4)
1970: George M. Foster	213	(4)
1971: Charles Wagley	217	(4)
1972: Anthony F. C. Wallace	221	(4)
1973: Joseph B. Casagrande	225	(4)
1974: Edward H. Spicer	229	(4)
1975: Ernestine Friedl	233	(4)
1976: Walter R. Goldschmidt	237	(4)
1977: Richard N. Adams	241	(4)
1978: Francis L. K. Hsu	245	(4)
1979: Paul Bohannan	249	(4)
1980: Conrad M. Arensberg	253	(4)
1981: William C. Sturtevant	257	(4)
1982: M. Margaret Clark	261	(4)
1983: Dell Hymes	265	(4)
1984--1985: Nancy O. Lurie	269	(4)
1986--1987: June Helm	273	(4)
1988--1989: Roy A. Rappaport	277	(4)
1990--1991: Jane Buikstra	281	(4)
1992--1993: Annette Weiner	285	(4)
1994--1995: James Peacock	289	(4)
1996--1997: Yolanda T. Moses	293	(4)
1998--1999: Jane H. Hill	297	(4)
1999--2001: Louise Lamphere	301	(4)
2001--2003: Donald Brenneis	305	(4)
References	309	(52)
Illustration Credits	361	(2)
The AAA Centennial Commissions	363