| Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology Contributor(s): Handler, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299163946 ISBN-13: 9780299163945 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| Series: History of Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Excluded Ancestors focuses on little-known scholars who contributed significantly to the anthropological work of their time, but whose work has since been marginalized due to categorical boundaries of race, class, gender, citizenship, institutional and disciplinary affiliation, and English-language proficiency. The essays in Excluded Ancestors illustrate varied processes of inclusion and exclusion in the history of anthropology, examining the careers of John William Jackson, the members of the Hampton Folk-Lore Society, Charlotte Gower Chapman, Lucie Varga, Marius Barbeau, and Sol Tax. A final essay analyzes notions of the canon and considers the place of a classic ethnographic area, highland New Guinea, in anthropological canon-formation. Contributors include Peter Pels, Lee Baker, Frances Slaney, Maria Lepowsky, George Stocking, Ronald Stade, and Douglas Dalton. |