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

• Autore: Underhill Ruth <1883-1984.>
• Pubblicazione: Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.092
• Soggetto topico: Women anthropologists - United States; Tohono O'odham Indians - Social life and customs; Pueblo Indians - Social life and customs
• Altri autori: Colwell-ChanthaphonhChip NashStephen E
• 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""; ""Weâ€?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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: An anthropologist's arrival
• ISBN: 0-8165-9898-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789019103321
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