Regna Darnell

List of John Benjamins publications in which Regna Darnell is involved.

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And Along Came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology

Regna Darnell

The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 86] 1998. xviii, 333 pp.

Darnell, Regna 2011 Reassessing the Contribution of Franz Boas (1858–1941): Conference report Historiographia Linguistica 38:1/2, pp. 253–254 | Article

Darnell, Regna 2009 Franz Boas Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 41–49 | Article

Darnell, Regna 2005 Franz Boas Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Darnell, Regna 2000 Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American stories from the first half of the twentieth century. By Julia S. Falk Historiographia Linguistica 27:2/3, pp. 437–439 | Review

Darnell, Regna 1999 21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic Relationships The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 3–16 | Article

Darnell, Regna 1997 Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition. Ed. by George W. Stocking, Jr. Historiographia Linguistica 24:3, pp. 421–423 | Review

Darnell, Regna 1995 The Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss Historiographia Linguistica 22:1/2, pp. 217–234 | Article

Despite the importance of Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism to a range of disciplines, little historiographic attention has been given to the sources of his thought about universals of human cognition. This paper examines his roots in Durkheimian sociology and his borrowings from Boasian anthropology… read more

Darnell, Regna 1991 On the occasion of Silversteinian Musings on the State of Sapiriana Historiographia Linguistica 18:2/3, pp. 419–424 | Miscellaneous

Darnell, Regna 1990 Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist Text Tradition North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics, Dinneen, S.J., Francis P. and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 129–144 | Article

Darnell, Regna 1990 Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist text tradition Historiographia Linguistica 17:1/2, pp. 129–144 | Article

The collection of native texts was foundational to the practice of Boasian anthropology and linguistics because it preserved for posterity the understanding of a culture by its members – not just the ethnographic facts but their integration into the lives of particular individuals. Edward Sapir… read more

Darnell, Regna 1986 The Emergence of Edward Sapir's Mature Thought New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984), Cowan, William, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 553–588 | Article

Darnell, Regna 1984 The Sapir Years at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa (1976) Edward Sapir – Appraisals of his life and work, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 159–178 | Chapter