Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America

List of Contributors

Mary Black-Rogers, who received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford in 1967, is currently adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. She has published numerous articles on cognitive anthropology, Subarctic Algonquian ethnolinguistics , ethnohistory and social organization, and the ethnohistory of the fur trade and the Metis. She is currently preparing two books for publication : Round Lake Study Database File and Treaty Gold: An Ethnographic History of the Treaty Period in Northern Ontario, 1900–1950. Thomas Buckley, who received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1982, conducted fieldwork and practiced advocacy anthropology on the lower Klamath River between 1976 and 1990 and taught from 1980 until 2000 at the University of Massachusetts , Boston, where he was associate professor of anthropology and American studies. He is now an independent scholar focusing on the maritimeworldoftheNorthAtlanticBasin.Hismajorpublicationsinclude the articles “Yurok Speech Registers and Ontology” and “‘Pitiful History of Little Events’: The Epistemological and Moral Contexts of Kroeber’s California Ethnology.” He also edited (with Alma Gottlieb) Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. His monograph Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality will be published in 2002. William N. Fenton began his career in Iroquois studies in 1933 as a graduate student at Yale, where he received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1937. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York, Albany. In 1999, Yale Graduate School 257 Contributors awarded him the Wilbur Cross Medal. He is the author of some two hundred publications on Iroquois culture and ethnohistory. His latest monograph,The Great Law and the Longhouse, published in 1998, was awarded the Rathbaum Prize. Ann Fienup-Riordan, who received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1980, is an independent scholar who has lived, worked, and taught anthropology in Alaska since 1973. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Nelson Island Eskimo, Eskimo Essays, The Real People and the Children of Thunder: The Yup’ik Eskimo Encounter with Moravian Missionaries John and Edith Kilbuck, Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup’ik Eskimo Oral Tradition, Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos at the Movies, The Living Tradition of Yup’ik Masks, and, most recently, Hunting Tradition in a Changing World. She was named 1983 Humanist of the Year by the Alaska Humanities Forum and 1991 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society. At present she is working with Yup’ik elders , exploring museum collections in a project entitled Elders in Museums : Fieldwork Turned on Its Head. Raymond D. Fogelson received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. He is currently professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, where since the mid-1960s he has trained many specialists on North American Indian culture and ethnohistory. He has conducted ethnographic field research among the Eastern Cherokees as well as the Cherokees and Muskogees (Creeks) of Oklahoma. Besides the culture and ethnohistory of southeastern Indians, his research interests include American Indian ethnology and ethnohistory, psychological anthropology, anthropology of religion, and history of anthropology. He has published extensively on these topics and is the author and editor of several books, including The Anthropology of Power (with R. N. Adams), Contributions to Anthropology: Selected Papers of A. Irving Hallowell, and The Cherokees : A Critical Bibliography. He is currently editing the “Southeast” volume of the Handbook of North American Indians. Michael E. Harkin, who received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1988, is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of numerous journal 258 | contributors articles and book chapters on semiotics, history of anthropological theory, gender, colonial and postcolonial discourse, and the culture and ethnohistory of Northwest Coast Indians, particularly the Heiltsuks . The latter are the subject of his book The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of History and Culture on the Northwest Coast. He is currently preparing Between Mountains and Sea: Cultures and Histories of the Northwest Coast for publication and is working on a project dealing with the mythopoetics of the Lost Colony. Sergei Kan received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1982 and is currently professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He has been conducting ethnographic and archival research in southeastern Alaska since 1979 and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the culture and...