Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American AnthropologyU of Nebraska Press, 01.01.2004 - 359 Seiten Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887?1950). Although he earned a medical degree, de Angulo chose to live on an isolated ranch in Big Sur, California, where he participated fully in the lives of the people who were his ethnographic informants. The period of his most extensive research coincides almost perfectly with the professionalization of anthropology, and de Angulo provides a link between those who are generally recognized as the most important figures of the day: Franz Boas, Alfred Kroeber, and Edward Sapir. ø The fields of salvage ethnography and linguistics, which Boas emphasized, were aimed at recording the culture, language, and myths of the Native groups before they became completely acculturated. In keeping with these dictates, de Angulo recorded data from thirty groups, mostly in California, which otherwise might have been lost. In an unusual move for that time, he also wrote fiction and poetry describing the modern lives of the people he studied, something of little interest to Boas but of great interest today. His most enduring work is Indian Tales, a fictional synthesis of myths learned from various California Indians. De Angulo?s range of interests, originality, and expertise exemplified the curiosity and brilliance of those who pioneered American anthropology at this time. |
Inhalt
Introduction I | 1 |
Part | 21 |
Key Figures | 73 |
Part | 97 |
Practical Problems | 106 |
The Committee on Research | 123 |
The Achumawi | 181 |
Work with Other Groups | 207 |
Years of Synthesis | 246 |
Chronology | 285 |
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A. A. Wyn academic Achumawi language ACLS Bulletin Advisory Board American Indian ANALYSIS Angulo and Freeland Angulo to Boas anthropology April Atsugewi Berkeley Boas Collection Boas to Sapir Boas's Chichimeco Chontal complete culture December dialects discussion Dixon ethnography example February fiction field fieldwork funds Gamio grammar Gui de Angulo Harrington IJAL included Indian Languages Indians in Overalls interest Jacobs Jaime de Angulo January June Kalapuya Karok Konomihu Kroeber later Leland letter linguistic linguistic research Lowie Lutuami March material mawi Mazatec Mexico Miwok myths Native American Languages never Northern Paiute November October Old Time Stories Patwin phonetics Pomo languages prepared primitive problem publication published Radin Research in Native Sapir and Bloomfield semasiology sent shaman Shasta Shastan languages songs suggested Taos Taos language tapes texts Tfalati UCLA ucsc Uldall University of California Unpublished manuscript wanted writing wrote Zapotec