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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463391103321

Autore

Applegarth Risa

Titolo

Rhetoric in American anthropology : gender, genre, and science / / Risa Applegarth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8229-7947-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Disciplina

301.01/4

Soggetti

Ethnology - History

Anthropology - Philosophy

Anthropologists' writings

Women anthropologists

Feminist anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists"--