| Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology Contributor(s): Handler, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0299194701 ISBN-13: 9780299194703 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: Anthropology is by definition about "others," but in this volume the phrase refers not to members of observed cultures, but to "significant others"--spouses, lovers, and others with whom anthropologists have deep relationships that are both personal and professional. The essays in this volume look at the roles of these spouses and partners of anthropologists over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially their work as they accompanied the anthropologists in the field. Other relationships discussed include those between anthropologists and informants, mentors and students, cohorts and partners, and parents and children. The book closes with a look at gender roles in the field, demonstrated by the "marriage" in the late nineteenth century of the male Anthropological Society of Washington to the Women's Anthropological Society of America. Revealing relationships that were simultaneously deeply personal and professionally important, these essays bring a new depth of insight to the history of anthropology as a social science and human endeavor. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Family & Relationships - Psychology | Interpersonal Relations |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 2003014538 |
| Series: History of Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.28" W x 9.3" (1.22 lbs) 297 pages |
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| Publisher Description: During the First World War it was the task of the U.S. Department of Justice, using the newly passed Espionage Act and its later Sedition Act amendment, to prosecute and convict those who opposed America s entry into the conflict. In Unsafe for Democracy, historian William H. Thomas Jr. shows that the Justice Department did not stop at this official charge but went much further paying cautionary visits to suspected dissenters, pressuring them to express support of the war effort, or intimidating them into silence. At times going undercover, investigators tried to elicit the unguarded comments of individuals believed to be a threat to the prevailing social order.In this massive yet largely secret campaign, agents cast their net wide, targeting isolationists, pacifists, immigrants, socialists, labor organizers, African Americans, and clergymen. The unemployed, the mentally ill, college students, schoolteachers, even schoolchildren, all might come under scrutiny, often in the context of the most trivial and benign activities of daily life. Delving into numerous reports by Justice Department detectives, Thomas documents how, in case after case, they used threats and warnings to frighten war critics and silence dissent. This early government crusade for wartime ideological conformity, Thomas argues, marks one of the more dubious achievements of the Progressive Era and a development that resonates in the present day. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Recommended for all libraries. Frederic Krome, Library Journal" |