Index
Index Adell, Sandra, 6o, 63-64 Afro-Caribbean culture: dance, 132-36; Hurston's studies of, 141-42, 149-52; and Johnson's youth, 74-75. See also Haiti; Haitian Vodou; Jamaica; Martinique "allegory of salvage;' 38-39 American Anthropological Association, 193 n.45 American Association of Anthropological Societies, 34 An American Dilemma (Myrdal), 92 American Folklore Society (AFLS), 28-31, 39, 41,189 n.17, 193 n.45; HFS scholarly delegation at 1894 meeting, 30-31; recording of African American folk songs, 30, 189 n.20 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH),33 American Negro Academy, 44 Anderson, David, 92, 112, 205 n.24 Andrews, William, 81, 200 n.11 anthropology: "allegory of salvage;' 38--39; African American folklore and the JAFL, 39; "applied;' 20; Chicago School of Sociology , 115, 117-20, 207 nn.5-6; "classical period " of the discipline, 12, 184 n.19; and colonialism, 12, 184-85 n.2o, 186 n.3o; Columbia department, 32, 33, 184 n.19, 190 n.26; cultural relativism, 22, 31, 41-42, 158; cultural syncretism, 119; cultural translation , 12, 134-36, 155-58, 185 n.21, 212 nn.33-34; culture concept, 22, 32, 38, 42, 93-95, 114, 183-84 n.12, 192 n.41; culture shock, 123; dance anthropology, 115, 117-18, 122-23, 129-32; development of modern, 21-23, 31-38; early changes to the discipline , 184 n.19; ethnocentrism, 150, 153; feminist ethnography, 18, 12o-21, 208 n.12; fieldwork, 9, 19, 118--20, 123-24, 150, 153; French ethnography of the 1920s and 1930s, 186-87 n.34; "going native:' 156; the Hampton Folklore Society, 23-32, 188 nn.6-7, 188 n.9; Hurston and the contradictions of the ethnographic perspective, 2-3, 5-9, 18, 142-44, 148, 150, 152-59, 187 n-40; hybrid narratives, 1o-12, 17, 48, 163, 183 n.2, 184 n.15; methods, 9-20; movement between cultures, 13-14, 15; museum model, 93-95, 203 n.7, 204 n.8; the "native ethnographer;' 2-3, 14-16, 186 nn.30-32; New Negro confrontation with assumptions /objectives, 14-16, 185 n.27, 186 n.3o; notion of"the field;' 54-56,197 nn.23-24; and participant-observation, 9, 15-16, 69, 8o, 125-26, 184 n.13, 199 n.2; and political neutrality ideal, 20, 186 n.30; possibilities and limitations, 12, 19-20, 183 n.2, 184-85 n.2o; and postmodern "crisis of representation ;' 16, 186-87 n.34; and scientific racism, 13, 21-23, 32-38, 40, 42, 141, 185 n.27, 191 n.34; and sociology discipline, 44-45, 186 n.33, 195 n.3; subject-object dichotomies , 14-16; views of race and cultural assimilation, 42-43, 194 n.52; "virtual anthropologists," 14-15, 186 nn.31-32; women in the field, 33. See also Boas, Franz; folklore collection; New Negro ethnographic literature Anzaldua, Gloria, 14 Aptheker, Herbert, 198 n.31 Argonauts ofthe Western Pacific (Malinowski ), 20, 183-84 n.u, 184 n.13 Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 23-24, 25, 31, 189 n.15 Arnold, Mathew, 47 Aschenbrenner, Joyce, 142, 185 n.21 Assen, Abdul, 127 "The Atlanta Conferences" (DuBois), 55, 65 Atlanta University, 46, 186 n.33 220 Index Atlanta University Conferences of Negro Problems, 46, 70 The Atlantic Monthly, 27 Autobiography ofan Ex-Colored Man (Johnson ), 69-90; class analysis, 73, 82, 84, 88, 200 n.13, 201 n.17, 202 n.19; and cultural recovery /collection of folk music, 83-87, 201 nn.15-18; and DuBois's Souls ofBlack Folk, 69, 71-72, 90; and DuBois's "talented tentlt:' 71-72; etltnographic stance, 17, 69, 70, 73-74, So, 83-87, 201 n.15; and failed paternal figures, 75; fiction as autobiography /auto-etltnography, 71-74, 199 n.4; lynching images, 87-88; the narrator as solitary/self-absorbed figure, 81, 200 n.11; tlte narrator's descriptions of New York, 78-79; the narrator's reliability, 72-74, 199-200 n.6, 200 n.B; participantobservation , 69, Bo; protagonist's travels tltrough tlte Soutlt, 17, 69, 77-78, 83, 200 n.1o, 201 n.15; and race as cultural/ historical construct, 69; racial ambiguity/ ambivalence, 73-74, 80-83, 88-90, 200 n.12, 202 nn.20-21; racial heritage and tlte problem of citizenship, 75-76; ragtime music, 69, 83, 84, 85; self-inquiry and tlte narrator 's shame, 87, 88 Awkward, Michael, 173 "Backwater Blues" (song), 105-6,206 n.30 Bacon, Alice...
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