Ira Jacknis
Biographic Data
| ID | 77835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Jacknis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacknis |
| SIGNATURE | JACKNIS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The First Art of the First Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anthropology, Art, and Folklore
In the great age of museum institutionalization between 1875 and 1925, museums competed to form collections in newly defined object categories. Yet museums were uncertain about what to collect, as the boundaries between art and anthropology and between art and craft were fluid and contested. As a case study, this article traces the tortured fate of a large collection of folk pottery assembled by New York art patron Emily de Forest (1851–1942). Af…
All the World Is Here
K roeber, A lfred L . (1876–1960)
Alfred L. Kroeber was the leading American anthropologist of his generation. Widely regarded as the successor to his mentor, Franz Boas, he dominated the discipline during the first half of the twentieth century. As the first professor and curator of anthropology at the University of California, he was the founder of the scholarly study of California Indians. Kroeber was also known for his contributions to culture theory
An Asian Frontier
Reviewed by: An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945 by Robert Oppenheim Ira Jacknis Robert Oppenheim, An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 450 pp. Robert Oppenheim's An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945 is a significant contribution to the history of American anthropology, going far beyond the seemingly narrow scope suggested by …
Coming of Age in Chicago
Coming of Age in Chicago
Collection of scholarly essays and primary documents exploring the significance of the 1893 World's Fair and the history of American anthropology
America Is Our Field
This article outlines the regional interests and emphases in anthropological collection, research, and display at the American Museum of Natural History, during the first half of the twentieth century. While all parts of the world were eventually represented in the museum's collections, they came from radically different sources at different times, and for different reasons. Despite his identity as an Americanist, Franz Boas demonstrated a much m…
Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art
Visual Anthropology
Indian Baskets of Central California: Art, Culture, and History. Native American Basketry from San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay North to Mendocino and East to the Sierras . Ralph Shanks, author, and Lisa Woo Shanks, ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, distributed for Miwok Archaeological Preserve of Marin in association with Costaño Books, 2006. 176 pp
A New Thing? The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective
A New Thing?The NMAIin Historical and Institutional Perspective Ira Jacknis (bio) In 1916 George Gustav Heye (1874–1957), a wealthy engineer and financier, founded the Museum of the American Indian in New York City. According to one curator, Heye "managed over some sixty years to acquire the largest assemblage of Indian objects ever collected by a single person, . . . now including more than 800,000 objects."1 Heye served as director of the museu…
Gateways
Book Review| October 01 2003 Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition,1897-1902 Edited by Igor Krupnik and William W. Fitzhugh. Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology, No. 1. (Washington, : Smithsonian Institution, 2001. xvi + 335 pp. $18.00 paper.) Ira Jacknis Ira Jacknis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 779–781. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-779 Cite Ic…
The First Boasian
This article reviews the interplay of the personal, institutional, and intellectual factors in the relationship between Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber, his first important student. It focuses on their first decade, 1896-1905, a critical transitional period in the formation of American anthropology. After a consideration of their personal and familial contexts, it reviews Boas's role as a graduate professor to Kroeber, the beginning of an academic …
Sacred Objects and Sacred Places
Edward S. Curtis
Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians. 2000. Directed by Anne Makepeace. co‐produced by Anne Makepeace and WNET. Distributed by Bullfrog Films. P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547. 84 minutes (also available in an abridged 56 minute version)
Franz Boas
Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade
Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox. Marvin Cohodas. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, and Los Angeles: The Southwest Museum, 1997. xvii. 362 pp.; 31 b/w drawings and photographs, 64 color plates, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (hard cover
Telling a Story about the Past
Ishi, The. Last Yahi. 1992. 57 minutes, color. Produced and directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts. Distributed by the Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California Extension, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510/642-0460. Fax 510/643-9271. Available in video and 16mm.Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed. 1995.85 minutes, color. Produced by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin. Directed by Alan Berliner. Distribute…
The Ethnographic Object and the Object of Ethnology in the Early Career of Franz Boas
Repatriation as Social Drama
The Kwakiutl Indians-who live at the north end ofVancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia-are well-known from the extensive collections and writings of anthropologist Franz Boas.1 They also are the subjects of a classic and well-documented case of the repatriation of artifacts from museum collections. This essay will recount the history of this process of inter-cultural definition and negotiation, and consider some of the mo…
Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ira Jacknis; Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1996; 20 (3): 15-32. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.20.3.gur5h72113047276 Download citation…
Visual Anthropology at the 94th American Anthropological Association Meetings
Ishi, The Last Yahi
Ishi, The Last Yahi (1992), Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts (Producers/Directors), Rattlesnake Productions. 57:20 min., color, purchase: 16mm $1,195/video $325; rental: video $75. Also Available in 35 mm. Distributed by University of California extension, Center for Media and Independent learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, Ca., 94704; 510‐642‐0460 (phone), 510‐643‐9271(fax)
Through Time, Across Continents
Through Time, Across Continents:. Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum. Dilys Pegler Winegrad. Philadelphia: The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. xviii. 226 pp, 14 color plates, 115 b/w figs., index. $80.00 (cloth
Big Eyes
Big Eyes: The Southwestern Photographs of Simeon Schwemberger, 1902‐1908. Paul V. Long. with an essay by Michele M. Penhall. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 204 pp., 129 b/w photographs, notes, photo sources, bibliography. $32.50 (cloth
Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali
Franz Boas and Photography
The First Boasian
This article reviews the interplay of the personal, institutional, and intellectual factors in the relationship between Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber, his first important student. It focuses on their first decade, 1896-1905, a critical transitional period in the formation of American anthropology. After a consideration of their personal and familial contexts, it reviews Boas's role as a graduate professor to Kroeber, the beginning of an academic …
James Mooney as an ethnographic photographer
James Mooney (1861-1921), ethnologist at the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, has long been esteemed for his studies of the Ghost Dance and of Cherokee myths. However, his important corpus of American Indian photographs has been relatively ignored. This overview of Mooney's photography discusses the extent and way in which it serves as an ethnographic description of Native American cultures at the turn of the century. After a biographi…
Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ira Jacknis; Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1996; 20 (3): 15-32. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.20.3.gur5h72113047276 Download citation…
A New Thing? The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective
A New Thing?The NMAIin Historical and Institutional Perspective Ira Jacknis (bio) In 1916 George Gustav Heye (1874–1957), a wealthy engineer and financier, founded the Museum of the American Indian in New York City. According to one curator, Heye "managed over some sixty years to acquire the largest assemblage of Indian objects ever collected by a single person, . . . now including more than 800,000 objects."1 Heye served as director of the museu…
Repatriation as Social Drama
The Kwakiutl Indians-who live at the north end ofVancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia-are well-known from the extensive collections and writings of anthropologist Franz Boas.1 They also are the subjects of a classic and well-documented case of the repatriation of artifacts from museum collections. This essay will recount the history of this process of inter-cultural definition and negotiation, and consider some of the mo…
Alfred Kroeber as Museum Anthropologist
Telling a Story about the Past
Ishi, The. Last Yahi. 1992. 57 minutes, color. Produced and directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts. Distributed by the Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California Extension, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510/642-0460. Fax 510/643-9271. Available in video and 16mm.Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed. 1995.85 minutes, color. Produced by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin. Directed by Alan Berliner. Distribute…
Where the People Gather
Where the People Gather: Carving. Totem Pole. Vickie Jensen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992.190 pp, 125 b/w photographs, appendixes, bibliography. $29.95 (cloth
Introduction
Through Time, Across Continents
Through Time, Across Continents:. Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum. Dilys Pegler Winegrad. Philadelphia: The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. xviii. 226 pp, 14 color plates, 115 b/w figs., index. $80.00 (cloth
Heafitz Hall of the North American Indian
Heafitz Hall of the North American Indian: Change and Continuity, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Permanent installation, opened April 5, 1990
Slide Review
Franz Boas and Photography
The picturesque and the scientific
Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali
A Sense of Place
Sense of Place.California's North Coast Ethnographic Photography by Scott M. Patterson. Introduction by Suzanne Abel-Vidor and Mark Rawitsch. essays by Vicki Patterson. Lowell John Bean. John Collier Jr. Ukiah and Willets. California: Grace Hudson Museum/Mendocino County Museum, 1989. 61 pp, 32 B&W photographs, $10.00 (paperback)
James Mooney as an ethnographic photographer
James Mooney (1861-1921), ethnologist at the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, has long been esteemed for his studies of the Ghost Dance and of Cherokee myths. However, his important corpus of American Indian photographs has been relatively ignored. This overview of Mooney's photography discusses the extent and way in which it serves as an ethnographic description of Native American cultures at the turn of the century. After a biographi…
Heafitz Hall of the North American Indian
Heafitz Hall of the North American Indian: Change and Continuity, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Permanent installation, opened April 5, 1990
Primitive Art in Civilized Places. Sally PRICE
The Isaac Cowie Collection of Plains Cree Material Culture from Central Alberta
The Isaac Cowie Collection of Plains Cree Material Culture from Central Alberta. JAMES W. VANSTONE. Fieldiana: Anthropology, n.s., no. 17. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1991.56 pp., 41 b/w photographs and line drawings, bibliography, appendix. $17.00 (paper
Objects of Myth and Memory
Big Eyes
Big Eyes: The Southwestern Photographs of Simeon Schwemberger, 1902‐1908. Paul V. Long. with an essay by Michele M. Penhall. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 204 pp., 129 b/w photographs, notes, photo sources, bibliography. $32.50 (cloth
Where the People Gather
Where the People Gather: Carving. Totem Pole. Vickie Jensen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992.190 pp, 125 b/w photographs, appendixes, bibliography. $29.95 (cloth
Introduction
Alfred Kroeber as Museum Anthropologist
Ishi, The Last Yahi
Ishi, The Last Yahi (1992), Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts (Producers/Directors), Rattlesnake Productions. 57:20 min., color, purchase: 16mm $1,195/video $325; rental: video $75. Also Available in 35 mm. Distributed by University of California extension, Center for Media and Independent learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, Ca., 94704; 510‐642‐0460 (phone), 510‐643‐9271(fax)
Through Time, Across Continents
Through Time, Across Continents:. Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum. Dilys Pegler Winegrad. Philadelphia: The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. xviii. 226 pp, 14 color plates, 115 b/w figs., index. $80.00 (cloth
Visual Anthropology at the 94th American Anthropological Association Meetings
The Ethnographic Object and the Object of Ethnology in the Early Career of Franz Boas
Repatriation as Social Drama
The Kwakiutl Indians-who live at the north end ofVancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia-are well-known from the extensive collections and writings of anthropologist Franz Boas.1 They also are the subjects of a classic and well-documented case of the repatriation of artifacts from museum collections. This essay will recount the history of this process of inter-cultural definition and negotiation, and consider some of the mo…
Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ira Jacknis; Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1996; 20 (3): 15-32. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.20.3.gur5h72113047276 Download citation…
Telling a Story about the Past
Ishi, The. Last Yahi. 1992. 57 minutes, color. Produced and directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts. Distributed by the Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California Extension, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510/642-0460. Fax 510/643-9271. Available in video and 16mm.Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed. 1995.85 minutes, color. Produced by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin. Directed by Alan Berliner. Distribute…
Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade
Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox. Marvin Cohodas. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, and Los Angeles: The Southwest Museum, 1997. xvii. 362 pp.; 31 b/w drawings and photographs, 64 color plates, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (hard cover
Edward S. Curtis
Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians. 2000. Directed by Anne Makepeace. co‐produced by Anne Makepeace and WNET. Distributed by Bullfrog Films. P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547. 84 minutes (also available in an abridged 56 minute version)
Franz Boas
Sacred Objects and Sacred Places
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