In Invisible Contrarian 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. 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. Along with a complete list of his publications, Invisible Contrarian 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.
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is the author of Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (Nebraska, 2005).
List of Illustrations Preface by Peter M. Nardi Part 1. Introduction Introducing Stephen O. Murray as Invisible Contrarian Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Regna Darnell 1. Stephen O. Murray in His Own Words: Extracts from His Journal Prepared by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Regna Darnell Part 2. Disciplinary History 2. The Breadth and Depth of Creativity in Stephen O. Murray's Research and Publications Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz 3. Stephen O. Murray as Collaborator Regna Darnell 4. Thinking through Area in the History of Anthropology Robert Oppenheim 5. "aids and the Social Imaginary" Thirty Years Later: A Controversial Early Skirmish in the Decolonizing of Anthropology Ralph Bolton Part 3. Homosexualities 6. Stephen O. Murray's Legacy in the Comparative Study of Homosexualities Barry D Adam 7. Stephen O. Murray's Contributions to Homosexuality Studies in Latin America Milton Machuca-GAlvez 8. Stephen O. Murray and the Development of Queer African Studies Marc Epprecht Part 4. Stephen O. Murray Gets the Last Word 9. John Gumperz in Context: 1977 and 1992 Interviews Stephen O. Murray 10. Doing History of Anthropology Stephen O. Murray 11. What Is a Conversation (in Anglo America)? Stephen O. Murray 12. Introduction to Male Sexual Subjectivities Stephen O. Murray 13. What Had Been Stephen O. Murray Appendix Contributors Index
"Stephen Murray emerges from these pages as a committed scholar, brilliant, incisive, tenacious, courageous, and-occasionally-grumpy and contentious. Invisible Contrarian demonstrates that signal contributions to the discipline can be made amid other work as more and more anthropologists are developing careers outside the academy."-Andrea Laforet, coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 "No other book assembles both papers by Stephen Murray and comments on his work. This is a treasure trove for any scholar working on Murray or wanting to know more about his work in either anthropology or queer studies. Invisible Contrarian will be the definitive Murray reference."-Yves Winkin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of anthropology and communication studies at the University of LiEge
