An anthropologist's arrival : a memoir / Ruth M. Underhill ; edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash.
Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984.
2014
GN21.U48 A3 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
An anthropologist's arrival : a memoir / Ruth M. Underhill ; edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash.
Author
Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984.
ISBN
9780816530601 paperback alkaline paper
0816530602 paperback alkaline paper
Published
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2014]
Language
English
Description
xii, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
GN21.U48 A3 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
301.092 B
Summary
"Ruth Underhill's intriguing memoir traces the story of her life, delving into the Depression, the famous anthropologists in her circle, and her fieldwork with a keen ethnographic eye. Underhill describes the Victorian society that first bound her and then ultimately enabled her success as a major figure in anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part I. Becoming Ruth Underhill
A zigzag life
Do good to others
Mother was an angel, Part 1.
They were Murrays
Abram S. Underhill
Mother was an angel, Part 2
Youth passing
Quakers and Darwin
Picnics and dances
Vassar and Europe
The society
The big love
World War I
A marriage begins and ends
Part two: Becoming an anthropologist
Columbia, Part 1
Papa Franz
Coming of age in Arizona
Henrietta
Chona and the O'odham
Columbia, Part 2
The fruit of the saguaro
Indian affairs
Around the world
We're going to live this year.

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