In search of us : adventures in anthropology /

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Author / Creator:	Moore, Lucy, 1970- author.
Imprint:	London : Atlantic Books, 2022. ©2022
Description:	311 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Anthropologists -- Biography. Anthropology -- History -- 19th century. Anthropologists. Anthropology. Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12754641

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ISBN:	1786499150 9781786499158 9781786499165 (ePub ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
Summary:	"In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilization had evolved, anthropology was a thriving area of study. But, by the middle of the twentieth century, it was difficult to think about ideas of 'savages' and otherness when 'civilized' man had wreaked such devastation across two world wars, and field work was to be displaced by sociology and the study of all human society. By focusing on thirteen key European and American figures in this field, from Franz Boas on Baffin Island to Zora Neale Hurston in New Orleans and Claude Lévi-Strauss in Brazil, Lucy Moore tells the story of the brief flowering of anthropology as a quasi-scientific area of study, and about the men and women whose observations of the 'other' were unwittingly to come to bear on attitudes about race, gender equality, sexual liberation, parenting and tolerance in ways they had never anticipated. In an enthralling and perceptive narrative, Moore shows how, unintended though it was, these anthropologists were to become pioneers of a new way of thinking. Their legacy is less about understanding far away cultures and more about teaching people to look at one another 'with eyes washed free from prejudice.' Their intention may have been to explain the primitive world to the civilized one, but they ended up by changing the way we think about ourselves - at least for a time." --
Other form:	ebook version : 9781786499165

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Pioneer: Franz Boas on Baffin Island, 1883
2. The Mentors: Alfred Haddon and William Rivers in the Torres Strait, 1898
3. The Philosopher: Edvard Westermarck in Morocco, 1898
4. The Magi: Daisy Bates and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in Western Australia, 1910-1912
5. The Hero: Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands, 1915-1917
6. The Academy: Franz Boas at Columbia University, 1899-1942
7. The Maiden: Ruth Benedict in the American Southwest, 1920s
8. The Child: Margaret Mead in Samoa, 1925
9. Insider/Outsider: Zora Neale Hurston in New Orleans, 1928
10. The Bluestocking: Audrey Richards in Zambia, 1930-1931
11. The Trickster: Claude Levi-Strauss in Brazil, 1938-1939
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes and Bibliography
More General Reading
Illustrations
Index

In search of us : adventures in anthropology /

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