Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions

<p><em>Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions</em> volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study anthropology's four-field discipline contains myriad practices theories and methodologies that are often divergent contradictory and associated with nationally based schools of thought contributing to a vital and diverse global discipline.</p><p>This volume emphasizes the challenges international scholars face as they engage both local and global movements. Several European traditions are represented including two chapters adding to the body of work on Portugal from previous volumes in the series. North American traditions are well represented including a collection of works on Nancy Lurie. Also included is an important examination of the collection of human skeletal remains in Argentina presented in English for the first time. Readers will find both new information and new ways of understanding this complex history. </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). Darnell is the general editor of The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition series and coeditor of the Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series. <strong>Frederic W. Gleach</strong> is a senior lecturer and curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of <em>Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures</em> (Nebraska 1997).</p><p></p>