ISBN:
0822979470
,
9780822979470
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (pages cm)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Rhetoric in American Anthropology : Gender, Genre, and Science
DDC:
301.01/4
Keywords:
Anthropology Philosophy
;
Ethnology History
;
Anthropologists' writings
;
Women anthropologists
;
Feminist anthropology
Abstract:
"In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gender, Genre, and Knowledge in the Welcoming Science; 1. Ethnographic Monographs: Genre Change and Rhetorical Scarcity; 2. Field Autobiographies: Rhetorical Recruitment and Embodied Ethnography; 3. Folklore Collections: Professional Positions andSituated Representations; 4. Ethnographic Novels: Educational Critiques and Rhetorical Trajectories; Conclusion: Rhetorical Archaeology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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