Frederica De Laguna

A Problem in the Relationship Between Archeological, Ethnological, and Historical Methods

The Story of a Tlingit Community

Archeology of the Yakutat Bay Area, Alaska

Kaj Birket-Smith

Results of an archeological and ethnographical expedition to Prince William Sound in the summer of 1933.

The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska

Alfred Irving Hallowell

The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper into the roots and significance of ritual, myth, language, social organization, and the physical make-up and prehistory of Native Americans. The fifty-five selections in this volume represent the interests of and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. The articles in their entirety showcase the state of the subfields of anthropology?archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology?as they were imagined and practiced at the dawn of the twentieth century. Examples of important ethnographic accounts and interpretive debates are also included. Introducing this collection is a historical overview of the beginnings of American anthropology by A. Irving Hallowell, a former president of the AAA.

Papers from the American Anthropologist

American Anthropology, 1888-1920

The history and culture of the Indians of Yakutat. Based on ethnographic field data collected in 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1954 and historical sources.

Frederica De Laguna

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