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Iroquois journey : an anthropologist remembers / William N. Fenton ; edited and introduced by Jack Campisi and William A. Starna.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005.
- Series:
- Iroquoians and their world.
- The Iroquoians and their world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropologists--New York (State)--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Indianists--New York (State)--Biography.
- Indianists.
- Iroquoian Indians--New York (State)--Antiquities.
- Iroquoian Indians.
- New York (State)--Antiquities.
- New York (State).
- Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005.
- Fenton, William N.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William N Fenton (1908-2005), was a scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. This memoir takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It is also a testament to the importance of anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over the years.
- Contents:
- Upstaters in suburbia and at home
- At Yale and among the Senecas
- From teaching to the Bureau of American Ethnology
- The war and postwar years
- The National Research Council
- The New York State Museum
- Research professorship at Albany
- Life after university.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611213572
- 9781281213570
- 1281213578
- 9780803213968
- 0803213964
- OCLC:
- 476102045
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