Title: Ruth Landes : a life in anthropology /
Authors: Cole, Sally Cooper, 1951-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Landes, Ruth,; Anthropologists United States Biography; Women anthropologists United States Biography.; Women anthropologists.
Abstract: "Ruth Landes (1908-91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes's life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology."
Contents: Immigrant daughter -- New woman -- Student at Columbia -- Maggie Wilson and Ojibwa women's stories -- Lusty Shamans in the Midwest -- Fieldwork in Brazil -- Writing Afro-Brazilian culture in New York -- The early ethnography of race and gender.