Scientists and Storytellers [electronic resource] : Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest / Catherine J. Lavender.

Author/Creator:

Lavender, Catherine Jane.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (258 p.)

Subjects:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Social life and customs.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Southwest, New.
Women anthropologists -- Southwest, New -- History.
Feminist anthropology -- Southwest, New -- History.
Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955.
Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

The work of four early women ethnographers--Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Underhill-- and their emphases on women's roles in Southwestern Indian cultures.

Contents:

Taking the field: the social context of southwestern ethnography
Present at the creation
The poetic professor
Listening daughters
Executive females and matriarchs
"Is she not a man?"
Making it new by making it old
Strands of knowledge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-242) and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-63546-1
0-8263-3870-4

OCLC:

817818810

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