An anthropologist's arrival : a memoir

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"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...

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Main Author: Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984 (Author)
Other Authors: Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip, Nash, Stephen E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson [Arizona] : The University of Arizona Press, 2014
Subjects:
Underhill, Ruth, > 1883-1984.
Women anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Tohono O'odham Indians > Social life and customs.
Pueblo Indians > Social life and customs.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Timeline
  • Genealogy
  • Monographs
  • Introduction
  • Part One: 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 Oâ€?odham
  • Columbia, Part 2The Fruit of the Saguaro
  • Indian Affairs
  • Around the World
  • Weâ€?re Going to Live This Year
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figure Credits
  • Index
  • About the Editors

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