A01=Aisha Khan
A01=Jerrie Mcintyre
A01=Ruth Weinberg
A01=Ute Gacs
Author_Aisha Khan
Author_Jerrie Mcintyre
Author_Ruth Weinberg
Author_Ute Gacs
Category=JHM
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Women's Studies
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- ISBN 9780313244148
- Weight: 851g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 1988
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A welcome resource and reference biographical dictionary that took five years to produce and is aimed at both graduate and undergraduate students in anthropology, history, and sociology. Each chapter is a brief autobiography that portrays the professional and personal lives--the triumphs and tribulations--of the brave, committed, first- and second-generation pioneers. . . . Well organized with useful appendixes, indexes, and references. Choice
These concise biographies of a wide and interesting sample of women anthropologists make a valuable addition to the growing field of history of anthropology. As the editors point out, the careers of these women illuminate, usually by contrast, the factors that shaped the discipline of anthropology in its first century. The editors also note that these women's careers show far more `applied' and `popular' work than characterizes the careers of most prominent men anthropologists, and this difference calls into question the values implicit in much mainstream anthropology, implicit values often at odds with professed values.
Alice B. Kehoe, Marquette University
UTE GACS is a former coeditor of the Southwestern Anthropological Association Newsletter and the National Women's Anthropology Newsletter.
AISHA KHAN is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
JERRIE MCINTYRE is affiliated with the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University.
RUTH WEINBERG is coeditor of the Archaeological Survey and Excavation of San Pablo Reservoir.
