Dr. Regna Darnell
Fellow
Current Employer
Western University
Election Year
1996
Academy
Académie des sciences sociales
Discipline
Anthropology / Archaeology
Department
Department of Anthropology
Keywords
First nations, language and culture, eco system health, history of anthropology, theory and criticism
Regna Darnell (Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario) is eminent in two fields.
As a distinguished historian of North American anthropology and linguistics, she has focussed on the process of institutionalization and written the definitive intellectual biographies of two founding figures. In the field of language-and-culture, her work ranges from the general ethnography of communication among the Plains Cree of Alberta to the discourse strategies employed in English by the Ojibwe and Mohawk communities of southern Ontario, and her ethnographic contributions are as important as her theoretical insights. In seeking to articulate the meaning of cultural forms for participants in the culture, Darnell explicates and, at the same time, continues "the Americanist tradition."
As a distinguished historian of North American anthropology and linguistics, she has focussed on the process of institutionalization and written the definitive intellectual biographies of two founding figures. In the field of language-and-culture, her work ranges from the general ethnography of communication among the Plains Cree of Alberta to the discourse strategies employed in English by the Ojibwe and Mohawk communities of southern Ontario, and her ethnographic contributions are as important as her theoretical insights. In seeking to articulate the meaning of cultural forms for participants in the culture, Darnell explicates and, at the same time, continues "the Americanist tradition."