Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 Introduction: Timely Conversations 1
4. 2. Theorizing Coyote's Cannon: Sharing Stories with Thomas King 19
5. ... THE AMERICANIST TRADITION
6. From History
7. 3 Theorizing Americanist Anthropology: Continuities from the B .A.E. to the Boasians 38
8. 4 The Non-Eclipse of Americanist Anthropology during the l 930s and 1940s 52
9. 5 Nationalism and the Americanist Tradition 75
10. To the Present
11. 6 Boas on the Threshold of Ethnopoetics 84
12. 7 Cultural Relativism in the Americanist Tradition: From Anthropological Method to Indigenous Emancipation 108
13. Addressing Authenticity
14. 8 Authenticity and Aggiornamento in Spoken Texts and Their Critical Edition 121
15. 9 Reflections on Culture, History, and Authenticity 150
16. 10 Dialogues between Worlds: Mesoamerica after and before the European Invasion 163
17. CHANGING TRADITIONS
18. In Text and Literacy
19. 11 The Meaning of Writing and Text in a Changing Americanist Tradition 181
20. 12 Continuities and Renewals in Mayan Literacy and Calendrics 195
21. 13 Why Collect Texts? The Native, Evangelical, and Americanist Traditions among the Tuscaroras 209
22. 14 George A. Dorsey, James R. Murie, and the Textual Documentation of Skiri Pawnee 227
23. 15 'George Sword Wrote These': Lakota Culture as Lakota Text 245
24. 16 Ella Cara Deloria: Early Lakota Ethnologist (Newly Discovered Novelist) 259
25. In Linguistics and Education
26. 17 Past and New Directions for Fieldwork in Ethnolinguistics: The Case of Micmac (Northern Dialects) 268
27. 18 Nisga' a Studies and the Americanist Tradition: Bringing First Nations Research and Teaching into the Academy 283
28. 19 Policy on Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Notes on Status Planning 299
29. And Changing Discourses
30. 20 'Interpersonal Relations' in a Kalapalo Shaman's Narrative 315
31. 21 Sequentiality and Temporalization in the Narrative Construction of a South American Cholera Epidemic 330
32. 22 Personal Agency in Systemic Discourse 338
33. THEORIZING ACROSS BOUNDARIES: THE AMERICANIST TRADITION AND OTHERS
34. 23 'Critical Linguistics': Alternative Approaches to Text in the American Tradition 351
35. 24 Current Extensions of Sapir and Whorf in Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science: Cognitive Styles and Ontological Categories 365
36. 25 Anticipating Queer Theory 380
37. Contributors 391