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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457322103321

Autore

Lavender Catherine Jane

Titolo

Scientists and storytellers [[electronic resource] ] : feminist anthropologists and the construction of the American Southwest / / Catherine J. Lavender

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2006

ISBN

1-283-63546-1

0-8263-3870-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

301.0979

Soggetti

Feminist anthropology - Southwest, New - History

Women anthropologists - Southwest, New - History

Ethnology - Fieldwork - Southwest, New

Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.