Historicizing Theories, Identities, and Nations

Editors’ Introduction
1. Franz Boas as Theorist: A Mentalist Paradigm for the Study of Mind, Body, Environment, and Culture
Regna Darnell
2. “We Are Also One in Our Concept of Freedom”: The Dewey-Boas Correspondence and the Invention of Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism
Michael E. Harkin
3. What Would Franz Boas Have Thought about 9/11?
Michael E. Harkin
4. Boas and the Young Intellectuals: Exploring the American Context of Anthropology and Modern Life
David W. Dinwoodie
5. Ruth Benedict: Synergy, Maslow, and Hitler
Frank A. Salamone
6. Continuity and Dislocations: A. I. Hallowell’s Physical Anthropology
James M. Nyce and Evelyn J. Bowers
7. An Epistemological Shift in the History of Anthropology: The Linguistic Turn
Robert C. Ulin
8. Westermarck and the Diverse Roots of Relativism
Andrew P. Lyons
9. Heritage Gatherers: Peasant-Mania Ethnography and Pre–World War I National Awakeners of Ukraine
Olga Glinskii
10. Adopting Western Methods to Understand One’s Own Culture: Social and Cultural Studies by Vietnamese Scholars of the French Colonial Era
Nguyen Phuong Ngoc
Translation by Helene Tammik
11. Life in Hanoi in the State Subsidy Period: Questions Raised in Social Criticism and Social Reminiscences
Nguyen Van Huy
12. Between Ethnos and Nation: Genealogies of Dân Tộc in Vietnamese Contexts
Bradley Camp Davis
13. Arthur Nole (1940–2015): Tahltan Elder, Raconteur, and Friend
Thomas McIlwraith
Contributors