Rhetoric in American anthropology
Subtitle: gender, genre, and science
By: Risa Applegarth
Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780822962953
Subjects: Ethnology; History; Anthropology; Philosophy; Anthropologists' writings; Women anthropologists; Feminist anthropology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-255) and index.