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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464424303321

Autore

Underhill Ruth <1883-1984.>

Titolo

An anthropologist's arrival : a memoir / / Ruth M. Underhill ; edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9898-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Colwell-ChanthaphonhChip

NashStephen E

Disciplina

301.092

Soggetti

Women anthropologists - United States

Tohono O'odham Indians - Social life and customs

Pueblo Indians - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Timeline""; ""Genealogy""; ""Monographs""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Becoming Ruth Underhill""; ""A Zigzag Life""; ""Do Good to Others""; ""Mother Was an Angel, Part 1""; ""They Were Murrays""; ""Abram S. Underhill""; ""Mother Was an Angel, Part 2""; ""Youth Passing""; ""Quakers and Darwin""; ""Picnics and Dances""; ""Vassar and Europe""; ""The Society""; ""The Big Love""; ""World War I""; ""A Marriage Begins and Ends""; ""Part Two:  Becoming an Anthropologist""; ""Columbia, Part 1""; ""Papa Franz""; ""Coming of Age in Arizona""; ""Henrietta""; ""Chona and the Oâ€?odham""

""Columbia, Part 2""""The Fruit of the Saguaro""; ""Indian Affairs""; ""Around the World""; ""We�re Going to Live This Year""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Figure Credits""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors""

Sommario/riassunto

"Ruth Underhill's intriguing memoir traces the story of her life, delving into the Depression, the famous anthropologists in her circle, and her fieldwork with a keen ethnographic eye. Underhill describes the Victorian society that first bound her and then ultimately enabled her success as a major figure in anthropology"--