Isaiah Lorado Wilner
Biographic Data
| ID | 401203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaiah Lorado Wilner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaiah Lorado |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilner |
| SIGNATURE | WILNER I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Body Knowledge, Part I: Dance, Anthropology, and the Erasure of History
A photograph depicts the anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of "…
Body Knowledge, Part II: Motion, Memory, and the Mythology of Modernity
A photograph depicts anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of potla…
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the world of Franz Boas
Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropolog…
Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness
This chapter argues that indigenous people were not merely recipients of history, playing bit roles to accommodate others' inventions or stage a forlorn act of resistance. They were inventors of modernity, innovators on a global stage who transformed the lives of people beyond their communities. The chapter draws on two areas of study that are usually treated separately: material culture and mythology. On the Northwest Coast, masks and “myths” ar…
Reembodying Our Occupied Geographies: Boyd Cothran's Remembering the Modoc War, Benjamin Madley's An American Genocide, and the Future of Native American Studies
Narratives of innocence are stories born of the dispossession of bodies from lands that continue to serve as vectors of violence, reenacting the scene that created them. The term was introduced by Boyd Cothran to describe the cunning afterlife of conflicts between settler states and indigenous peoples: state violence yields stories that reiterate erasure, weaponizing memory to forget the lessons of colonization. In a situation of violence that pr…
A Global Potlatch: Identifying the Indigenous Influence on Western Thought
This article identifies a seminal instance of Indigenous influence on Western thought. It does so by revealing a form of idea power exercised by Indigenous Americans: the power to transmit messages through the medium of people who came to meet and learn from them. In 1894, the Kwakwaka'wakw people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, invited the anthropologist Franz Boas to take part in their system of Indigenous governance, the potlatch. At a …
Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
Book Review| January 01 2011 Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America By Douglas Cazaux Sackman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. $24.95 cloth.) Isaiah Wilner Isaiah Wilner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-072 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Isaiah Wiln…
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropolog…
Body Knowledge, Part I: Dance, Anthropology, and the Erasure of History
A photograph depicts the anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of "…
Body Knowledge, Part II: Motion, Memory, and the Mythology of Modernity
A photograph depicts anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of potla…
Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
Book Review| January 01 2011 Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America By Douglas Cazaux Sackman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. $24.95 cloth.) Isaiah Wilner Isaiah Wilner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-072 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Isaiah Wiln…
A Global Potlatch: Identifying the Indigenous Influence on Western Thought
This article identifies a seminal instance of Indigenous influence on Western thought. It does so by revealing a form of idea power exercised by Indigenous Americans: the power to transmit messages through the medium of people who came to meet and learn from them. In 1894, the Kwakwaka'wakw people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, invited the anthropologist Franz Boas to take part in their system of Indigenous governance, the potlatch. At a …
Reembodying Our Occupied Geographies: Boyd Cothran's Remembering the Modoc War, Benjamin Madley's An American Genocide, and the Future of Native American Studies
Narratives of innocence are stories born of the dispossession of bodies from lands that continue to serve as vectors of violence, reenacting the scene that created them. The term was introduced by Boyd Cothran to describe the cunning afterlife of conflicts between settler states and indigenous peoples: state violence yields stories that reiterate erasure, weaponizing memory to forget the lessons of colonization. In a situation of violence that pr…
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the world of Franz Boas
Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropolog…
Transformation Masks: Recollecting the Indigenous Origins of Global Consciousness
This chapter argues that indigenous people were not merely recipients of history, playing bit roles to accommodate others' inventions or stage a forlorn act of resistance. They were inventors of modernity, innovators on a global stage who transformed the lives of people beyond their communities. The chapter draws on two areas of study that are usually treated separately: material culture and mythology. On the Northwest Coast, masks and “myths” ar…
Body Knowledge, Part I: Dance, Anthropology, and the Erasure of History
A photograph depicts the anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of "…
Body Knowledge, Part II: Motion, Memory, and the Mythology of Modernity
A photograph depicts anthropologist Franz Boas posing as an Indigenous youth in search of human flesh. It looks like an icon of cultural appropriation, but behind the picture is a history of Indigenous influence. The archive of body knowledge-memories encapsulated in the motions of dance and indexed in images-reveals that the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples civilized the white man who came to study them, converting him to the Host-Guest logic of potla…
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