Julia E Liss

Biographic Data

ID5179559
NAMEJulia E Liss
GIVEN NAMESJulia E
FAMILY NAMELiss
SIGNATURELISS J E
AFFILIATIONSScripps College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS32
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Patrons of Paleontology

    Open AccessJulia E Li, Julia E LissARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Jane P. Davidson's Patrons of Paleontology is a handsome study of the “symbiotic interaction” between government patrons and the science of paleontology, the study of past geological periods based on the fossil remains of plants and animals (p. xvi). With fascinating illustrations, the book details these relationships from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Europe, the colonial outposts of the British Empire, and the United States—fo…

  • Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965 John Gilkeson. Cambridge

    Open AccessJulia E Liss, JULIA LISSARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2012References: 1

  • Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture

    Julia E Li, Julia E LissARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    This thought-provoking book explores a rarely examined asymmetry in anthropology: its interest in the culture of “out-of-the way” Indians and the race of “in-the-way” Negroes, to use Lee D. Baker's terminology (pp. 9, 16). Baker argues that those preoccupations were connected; the study of American Indian culture affected the understanding of African American race. Those views—generated by anthropologists and reformers—also affected how Indian an…

  • The Trashing of Margaret Mead

    Open AccessJulia E Li, Julia E LissARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2011References: 1

  • Cosmopolitanism

    Julia E Li, Julia E LissARTICLERethinking History2009Cited by: 10

  • Franz Boas

    Open AccessJulia E Li, Julia E LissBOOKJournal of the History of the…2002

    Review of the book "Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906" by Herbert S. Lewis

  • Exotics at Home

    Julia E LissREVIEWJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity. By Micaela di Leonardo. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 445 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-47263-9.) Get access Julia E. Liss Julia E. Liss Scripps College, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Page 1834, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567687 Publish…

  • Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884. Journals and letters

    Open AccessJulia E LissARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2000

  • Race Men

    Julia E Liss, Hazel V CarbyARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Race Men. By Hazel V. Carby. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. x, 228 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-674-74558-2.) Get access Julia E. Liss Julia E. Liss Scripps College, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1356–1357, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568665 Published: 01 December 1999

  • The Science and Politics of Racial Research (review)

    Julia E LissARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: The Science and Politics of Racial Research Julia E. Liss William H. Tucker. The Science and Politics of Racial Research. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994. x + 371 pp. $36.95. The Science and Politics of Racial Research details how scientific studies of racial intelligence have persisted since the nineteenth century, from the scientific racism of the proslavery and post-Reconstruction United States to the rise of eugenic…

  • Diasporic Identities

    Open AccessJulia E LissARTICLECultural Anthropology1998Cited by: 21References: 13

  • Rethinking Race

    Julia E Liss, Vernon J Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997

  • German Culture and German Science in the Bildung of Franz Boas

    Julia E LissCHAPTERVolksgeist as Method and Ethic1996

  • Social Evolutionism

    Open AccessJulia E Li, Julia E LissARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1994

  • An Agenda for Antiquity

    Julia E Liss, Ronald RaingerARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article An Agenda for Antiquity: Henry Fairfield Osborn & Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890–1935. By Ronald Rainger. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. xiv + 360 pp. $37.95, ISBN 0-8173-0536-X.) Get access Julia E. Liss Julia E. Liss Scripps College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page…

  • Franz Boas, Social Activist

    Julia E Liss, Marshall HyattARTICLEJournal of American History1991Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Franz Boas, Social Activist: The Dynamics of Ethnicity. By Marshall Hyatt. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xii + 174 pp. $39.95.) Get access Julia E. Liss Julia E. Liss Scripps College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Page 697, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079623 Published: 01 September 1991

  • Art for The Masses

    Julia E Liss, Rebecca ZurierARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article Art for The Masses: A Radical Magazine and Its Graphics, 1911–1917. By Rebecca Zurier. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. xviii + 216 pp. $29.95.) Get access Julia E. Liss Julia E. Liss Scripps College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Page 635, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908075 Published: 01 September 1989