The Meskwaki and anthropologists : Action Anthropology reconsidered / Judith M. Daubenmier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daubenmier, Judith M.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology.

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fox Indians--Iowa--Social conditions--20th century.

Fox Indians.

Ethnology--Fieldwork--Iowa--History--20th century.

Ethnology.

Action Anthropology (Program)--Influence.

Action Anthropology (Program).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of practicing anthropology proposed by anthropologists and graduate students at the University of Chicago in response to pressure from the Meskwaki. Action Anthropology, as the program was called, attempted to more evenly distribute the benefits of anthropology by way of anthropologists helping the Native

Contents:

Making the modern Meskwaki Nation

Sol Tax and the value of anthropology

"Science has to stop somewhere"

Action Anthropology and the values question

1954

Project Nadir and rebound

Fruits of Action Anthropology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-403) and index.

ISBN:

9786611958312

9781281958310

128195831X

9780803218741

0803218745

OCLC:

298460432