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An AnthropologistÕs Arrival
Ruth M. Underhill
其他書名
A Memoir
出版University of Arizona Press, 2014-04-03
主題Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & PsychologistsBiography & Autobiography / General
ISBN08165306029780816530601
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sYLfAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Ruth M. Underhill (1883Ð1984) was one of the twentieth centuryÕs legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral student of anthropology. Celebrated now as one of AmericaÕs pioneering anthropologists, Underhill reveals her lifeÕs journey in frank, tender, unvarnished revelations that form the basis of An AnthropologistÕs Arrival. This memoir, edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash, is based on unpublished archives, including an unfinished autobiography and interviews conducted prior to her death, held by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
ÊÊ ÊIn brutally honest words, Underhill describes her uneven passage through life, beginning with a searing portrait of the Victorian restraints on women and her struggle to break free from her Quaker familyÕs privileged but tightly laced control. Tenderly and with humor she describes her transformation from a struggling Òsweet girlÓ to wife and then divorcŽe. Professionally she became a welfare worker, a novelist, a frustrated bureaucrat at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a professor at the University of Denver, and finally an anthropologist of distinction.
ÊÊ ÊHer witty memoir reveals the creativity and tenacity that pushed the bounds of ethnography, particularly through her focus on the lives of women, for whom she served as a role model, entering a working retirement that lasted until she was nearly 101 years old.
ÊÊ ÊNo quotation serves to express Ruth UnderhillÕs adventurous view better than a line from her own poetry: ÒLife is not paid for. Life is lived. Now come.Ó