Invisible Contrarian

<p>In <em>Invisible Contrarian</em> Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950-2019) who did pioneering research in ethnolinguistics and anthropology of gender and homosexuality. His socially relevant work continues to provide a cogent example of an emergent forward-looking anthropology for the twenty-first century. </p><p> Murray's wide-ranging work included linguistics regional ethnography in Latin America and Asia activism history of anthropology in relation to social sciences and migration studies.</p><p>Along with a complete list of his publications <em>Invisible Contrarian</em> highlights Murray's methodological innovations and includes key writings that remain little known since he never pursued a tenured research position. Murray's significant prolific contributions deserve not only to be reexamined but to be shared with contemporary and future audiences. Ideal both as a primer for those who have not yet read Murray's work and as an in-depth resource for those already familiar with him this volume demonstrates the wide-ranging accomplishments of a man who modeled how to be an independent scholar outside an academic position. </p><p></p><p><strong>Regna Darnell</strong> is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of <em>History of Theory and Method in Anthropology</em> (Nebraska 2022) among other books. <strong>Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz</strong> is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is the author of <em>Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology</em> (Nebraska 2005).</p><p></p>