Nihad Farooq - Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

Nihad M. Farooq

New York University Press

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Portions of chapter 1 appeared in Narrating Sense, Ordering Nature: Darwins Anthropological Vision, Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies 38, no. 2 (2012): 87111. 2012 Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. Portions of chapter 3 appeared in Creolizing Cultures: Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ethnographic Performance in the Twentieth Century, Studies in the Humanities 41, nos. 1, 2 (2015). 2015 Nihad M. Farooq. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as National Myths, Resistant Persons: Ethnographic Fictions of Haiti, in Journal of Transnational American Studies 5, no. 1 (2013): 136. 2013 Nihad M. Farooq.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Farooq, Nihad M., 1971 author.

Title: Undisciplined : science, ethnography, and personhood in the Americas,

18301940 / Nihad M. Farooq.

Description: New York : New York University Press, 2016. | Series: America and the long 19th century | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015049159 | ISBN 9781479812684 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479806997 (pb : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: EthnologyAmericaHistory19th century. | EthnologyAmericaHistory20th century. | Philosophical anthropologyHistory19th century. | Philosophical anthropologyHistory20th century. | PersonsPhilosophy.

Classification: LCC E29.A1 .F37 2016 | DDC 305.80097dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049159 References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing.

Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared.

This book is about journeysfrom chance adventures to forced relocations, wanderings to willful missionsthat foster new bonds of community and kinship, sometimes among the most seemingly disparate groups of people. Such encounters and travels in my own lifesome difficult, most serendipitoushave helped me forge a rich and unexpectedly diverse network of family and friends, mentors and colleagues, who have shaped the ideas and spirit that guides this work. I could not have written a single word without their profound gifts of time, empathy, and love that I believe are foundational to productive intellectual thought.

Early research for this book began in the Darwin Archive of the Cambridge University Library. I am thankful to Adam Perkins and the librarians who facilitated my research there, and for the Georgia Tech Research Foundation for making that visit possible. I am grateful to the librarians at the Newberry Library in Chicago for their research funding and assistance as well. This project could not have come to fruition without additional grants and research support from the Deans Office of Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech; and the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

I am so grateful to the anonymous reviewers who read early versions of these chapters, and who devoted significant time, energy, and care to encourage and strengthen this work. My special thanks, also, to the series and production editors from NYU Press, including Tim Roberts and Susan Murray, for the indexing services of Martin L. White, and for the kindness and dedication of Eric Zinner and Alicia Nadkarni, who believed in this project from the start.

For their mentorship, friendship, and support in my years at Georgia Tech, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Ron Broglio, Hugh Crawford, Lauren Curtright, Angela Dalle Vacche, Shannon Dobranski, Fox Harrell, Karen Head, Jillann Hertel, Liz Hutter, Wes Kirkbride, Ken Knoespel, Michelle Miles, Vinicius Navarro, J. C. Reilly, Jackie Royster, Aaron Santesso, Carol Senf, Jay Telotte, Nirmal Trivedi, Richard Utz, Sneha Veeragoudar-Harrell, Qi Wang, Lisa Yaszek, and Greg Zinman. Special thanks, in particular, is due to Laura Bier, Carol Colatrella, Elizabeth Freudenthal, Narin Hassan, Lauren Klein, Janet Murray, and Anne Pollock, for reading earlier versions and chapters of this manuscript, and many other pieces of writing along the way. For keeping us all organized and sane year after year, I am grateful for the kindness, professionalism, and dedication of Kenya Devalia, Dawn Jackson, Jocelyn Thomas, Grantley Bailey, and Melanie Richard. And for keeping me both grounded and on my toes each day, I am grateful for my smart, humble, and always-inspiring students, who are a daily reminder of the myriad ways in which our ideas and research are nourished.