Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

Winner of the 2019 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay CollectionA compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology°°° "This landmark collection offers a pioneering model for all intellectual historians, showing native peoples to be “agents of their own forms of globalization” who shaped some of our most distinctive commitments."— Samuel Moyn, coeditor of Global Intellectual History“An important contribution toward deepening work on native intellectual history, in its influence on Euro-American ideas & on its own terms. . . . Along with benefiting from the individual essays in this impressive volume, scholars from a number of fields in the humanities & social sciences, including historians focusing on native people, colonialism, the U.S. Progressive Era, & social-scientific thought, should grapple with the editors’ argument.”— Sean P. Harvey, Journal of American History°°° In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race & intelligence that justified violence & inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity & identity sprang from colonization & empire.°°° Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History & American Studies at Yale U., where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians & Empires in the Early American West. He lives in New Haven, CT.Isaiah Lorado Wilner is postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Center... Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 10 Part One: Origins and Erasures: The Emergence of a Boasian Circle 24 1 Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness • Isaiah Lorado Wilner 26 2 Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy • Lewis R. Gordon 65 3 Expressive Enlightenment: Subjectivity and Solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos • Montezuma Ryan Carr 84 4 “Culture” Crosses the Atlantic: The German Sources of The Mind of Primitive Man • Harry Liebersohn 114 Part Two: Worlds of Enlightenment: Boasian Thought as Process and Practice 132 5 Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas: Anthropology, Equality / Diversity, and World Peace • James Tully 134 6 Of Two Minds About Minding Language in Culture • Michael Silverstein 170 7 Why White People Love Franz Boas; or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession • Audra Simpson 189 Part Three: Routes of Race: The Transnational Networks of Ethnicity 206 8 Utter Confusion and Contradiction: Franz Boas and the Problemof Human Complexion • Martha Hodes 208 9 The Death of William Jones: Indian, Anthropologist, Murder • Victim Kiara M. Vigil 232 10 Woman on the Verge of a Cultural Breakdown: Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the Racial Privilege of Boasian Relativism • Eve Dunbar 254 11 “A New Indian Intelligentsia”: Archie Phinney and the Search for a Radical Native American Modernity • Benjamin Balthaser 281 Part Four: Boasiana: The Global Flow of the Culture Concept 300 12 The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept • Sean Hanretta 302 13 A Two- Headed Thinker: Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the Reinvention of Brazilian Identity • Maria Lúcia Pallares- Burke 339 14 Seeing Like an Inca: Julio C. Tello, Indigenous Archaeology, and Pre-Columbian Trepanation in Peru • Christopher Heaney 367 List of Contributors 400 Index 402 Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Origins and Erasures: The Emergence of a Boasian Circle -- 1 Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness -- 2 Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy -- 3 Expressive Enlightenment: Subjectivity and Solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma -- 4 "Culture" Crosses the Atlantic: The German Sources of The Mind of Primitive Man -- Part Two: Worlds of Enlightenment: Boasian Thought as Process and Practice -- 5 Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas: Anthropology, Equality / Diversity, and World Peace -- 6 Of Two Minds About Minding Language in Culture -- 7 Why White People Love Franz Boas -- or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession -- Part Three: Routes of Race: The Transnational Networks of Ethnicity -- 8 Utter Confusion and Contradiction: Franz Boas and the Problem of Human Complexion -- 9 The Death of William Jones: Indian, Anthropologist, Murder Victim -- 10 Woman on the Verge of a Cultural Breakdown: Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the Racial Privilege of Boasian Relativism -- 11 "A New Indian Intelligentsia": Archie Phinney and the Search for a Radical Native American Modernity -- Part Four: Boasiana: The Global Flow of the Culture Concept -- 12 The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept -- 13 A Two-Headed Thinker: Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the Reinvention of Brazilian Identity -- 14 Seeing Like an Inca: Julio C. Tello, Indigenous Archaeology, and Pre-Columbian Trepanation in Peru -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z This book is a compelling study that charts the influence of indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology. In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's __The Mind of Primitive Man__ challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, this book examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Chapters examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and identity sprang from colonization and empire. The focus is on the assemblage of individuals and communities who influenced the production and dissemination of modern concepts of diversity, identity, and belonging. This network of communities, cutting across binaries of race and boundaries of empire, is called the Boasian Circle. The book spotlights indigenous intellectuals, African American and pan-African scholars, German and Jewish scientists, and Latino writers and thinkers, all of whom contributed to the making of global cultural studies. A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology

In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and identity sprang from colonization and empire. A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology0 In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's 'The Mind of Primitive Man' challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and identity sprang from colonization and empire "In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and indentity sprang from colonization and empire."-- Provided by publisher "In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and indentity sprang from colonization and empire."--Back cover