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Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels
of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same fields, and
anthropology has been no different. The women anthropologists in
this book speak frankly about their challenges and successes as
they navigated through their personal and professional lives.
Riding the changing tides of social and disciplinary history, they
struggled through various and sometimes conflicting arenas of
life--marriage, raising children, caring for families, publishing,
conducting research, going into the field, teaching, and mentoring.
They did this during volatile periods in the twentieth century when
the roles and expectations for women were being constantly
reestablished and repositioned. For anyone interested in the
cultural and demographic shifts that are fundamentally altering
opportunities for women in the workplace, Women in Anthropology is
a thought provoking and inspirational read. For anthropologists, it
is an important and intimate portrait of the realities of
professional life.
Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels
of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same fields, and
anthropology has been no different. The women anthropologists in
this book speak frankly about their challenges and successes as
they navigated through their personal and professional lives.
Riding the changing tides of social and disciplinary history, they
struggled through various and sometimes conflicting arenas of
life-marriage, raising children, caring for families, publishing,
conducting research, going into the field, teaching, and mentoring.
They did this during volatile periods in the twentieth century when
the roles and expectations for women were being constantly
reestablished and repositioned. For anyone interested in the
cultural and demographic shifts that are fundamentally altering
opportunities for women in the workplace, Women in Anthropology is
a thought provoking and inspirational read. For anthropologists, it
is an important and intimate portrait of the realities of
professional life.
In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists,
sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians
explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and
constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors
outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its
nature and process, its personal and political implications, the
crisis in memory, and the relationship between social and
individual memory. Ten cross-cultural case studies-groups ranging
from Kiowa songsters, Burgundian farmers, elderly Phildelaphia
whites, Chilean political activists, American immigrants to Israel,
and Irish working class women-then explore how social memory
transmits culture or contests it at the individual, community, and
national levels in both tangible and symbolic spheres.
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