Rhetoric in American anthropology: gender, genre, and science
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Main Author: Applegarth, Risa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press 2014
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
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Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:"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"--
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:x, 267 pages
ISBN:9780822979470
0822979470
9780822962953
0822962950

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