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Scientists and storytellers [electronic resource] : feminist anthropologists and the construction of the American Southwest / Catherine J. Lavender.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavender, Catherine Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist anthropology--Southwest, New--History.
- Feminist anthropology.
- Women anthropologists--Southwest, New--History.
- Women anthropologists.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork--Southwest, New.
- Ethnology.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Social life and customs.
- Indians of North America.
- Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984.
- Underhill, Ruth.
- Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
- Benedict, Ruth.
- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.
- Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955.
- Reichard, Gladys Amanda.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-63546-1
- 0-8263-3870-4
- OCLC:
- 817818810
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