The first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline.

Julia Harrison is the author of Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel. She is an associate professor of Anthropology and Chair of Anthropology at Trent University. Regna Darnell is the author of Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology. She is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and the founding Director of the First Nations Studies Program at the University of Western Ontario.

1 Historicizing Traditions in Canadian Anthropology / Julia Harrison and Regna Darnell

Part 1: Situating Ourselves Historically and Theoretically

2 Disciplinary Tribes and Territories: Alliances and Skirmishes between Anthropology and History / A.B. McKillop

3 Toward a Historiography of Canadian Anthropology / Robert L.A. Hancock

Part 2: The Pre-professional History of Canadian Anthropology

4 The Erasure of Horatio Hale's Contributions to Boasian Anthropology / David Nock

5 Marius Barbeau and the Methodology of Salvage Ethnography in Canada, 1911-51 / Andrew Nurse

6 Iroquoian Archaeology, the Public, and Native Communities in Victorian Ontario / Michelle A. Hamilton

Part 3: Locating our Subjects

7 Canadian Anthropology and the Ethnography of "Indian Administration" / Noel Dyck

8 Canadian Anthropology and Ideas of Aboriginal Emendation / Colin Buchanan

9 A Comparative History of "Cultural Rights" in South Africa and Canada / Evie Plaice

10 Canadian Anthropologists in China Studies / Josephine Smart and Alan Smart

Part 4: Documenting Institutional Relations

11 Departmental Networks in Canadian Anthropology / Regna Darnell

12 Canadian Anthropology as a Situated Conversation / Richard K. Pope

13 Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia from 1947 to the 1980s / Elvi Whittaker and Michael Ames

14 Anthropology at Université Laval: The Early Years, 1958-70 / Marc-Adélard Tremblay

15 Expatriates in the Ivory Tower: Anthropologists in Non Anthropology University Departments / James B. Waldram and Pamela J. Downe

Part 5: Connections and Comparisons

16 Constituting Canadian Anthropology / David Howes

17 The Historical Praxis of Museum Anthropology: A Canada-US Comparison / Cory Willmott

18 Commodifying North American Aboriginal Culture: A Canada-US Comparison / Kathy M'Closkey and Kevin Manuel

19 Canadian Anthropology and the Cold War / Nelson H.H. Graburn

20 Texts and Contexts in Canadian Anthropology / Penny Van Esterik

21 Just a Little Off-Centre or Not Peripheral Enough: Paradoxes for the Reproduction of Canadian Anthropology / Vered Amit

Postscript

Notes and Acknowledgments

References

Contributors

Index