Chapter 9. The Death of William Jones: Indian, Anthropologist, Murder Victim

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part One. Origins and Erasures: The Emergence of a Boasian Circle
6. Chapter 1. Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness 3
7. Chapter 2. Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy 42
8. Chapter 3. Expressive Enlightenment: Subjectivity and Solidarity in Daniel Garrison Brinton, Franz Boas, and Carlos Montezuma 61
9. Chapter 4. “Culture” Crosses the Atlantic: The German Sources of The Mind of Primitive Man 91
10. Part Two. Worlds of Enlightenment: Boasian Thought as Process and Practice
11. Chapter 5. Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas: Anthropology, Equality / Diversity, and World Peace 111
12. Chapter 6. Of Two Minds About Minding Language in Culture 147
13. Chapter 7. Why White People Love Franz Boas; or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession 166
14. Part Three. Routes of Race: The Transnational Networks of Ethnicity
15. Chapter 8. Utter Confusion and Contradiction: Franz Boas and the Problem of Human Complexion 185
16. Chapter 9. The Death of William Jones: Indian, Anthropologist, Murder Victim 209
17. Chapter 10. Woman on the Verge of a Cultural Breakdown: Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti and the Racial Privilege of Boasian Relativism 231
18. Chapter 11. “A New Indian Intelligentsia”: Archie Phinney and the Search for a Radical Native American Modernity 258
19. Part Four. Boasiana: The Global Flow of the Culture Concept
20. Chapter 12. The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept 279
21. Chapter 13. A Two- Headed Thinker: Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the Reinvention of Brazilian Identity 316
22. Chapter 14. Seeing Like an Inca: Julio C. Tello, Indigenous Archaeology, and Pre- Columbian Trepanation in Peru 344
23. Contributors 377
24. Index 379