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Readings are grouped generationally. Grandparents<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Parents<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 Children<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Grandchildren<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Grandparents<\/strong><\/em> are those First Nations anthropologists who worked with the founding generation of institutional anthropology (late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> centuries). Of the many such people we will focus on three: Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899 \u2013 2005; Mohegan, who worked with Frank Speck), Ella Deloria (1889 \u2013 1971; Dakota, who worked with Franz Boas), and William Beyon (1888 \u2013 1958; Tsimshian, who worked with Franz Boas and Maurice Barubeau, among others). Each of these First Nations scholars played pivotal roles in shaping the path of institutional anthropology through their work, research, writings, and influence.<\/p>\n

Parents<\/strong><\/em> are the first generation of First Nations anthropologists who found work as faculty within institutional anthropology in the post world war II era. While others may have proceeded them in the academy the parent generation were among the first who worked as scholars beyond the domain of education or law with formal university appointments. Included here are Beatrice Medicine (1923 \u2013 2005; Lakota), Alfonso Ortiz (1939 \u2013 1997; Pueblo).<\/p>\n

Children<\/strong><\/em> form the generation that arose following the wave of new social movements birthed in the turbulent 1970s. These scholars studied with the parents and stories of the grandparents entering the professoriate in the 1980s and 1990s. With this generation came a shift in focus away from the more \u2018anthropologically looking\u2019 work of the parents. Ideas of identity, authority, governance and methodology become more apparent.<\/p>\n

Grandchildren<\/strong><\/em> have been freed to explore evermore diverse lines of engagement. Here the influence of transdisciplinarity arise more fully. These are the scholars of the 21st<\/sup> century building with the legacies of those who went before them<\/p>\n

In each unit we will consider four attributes of the authors\u2019 work: inspiration, transformation, self-reflection, and embodiment.<\/p>\n