Rhetoric in American anthropology : gender, genre, and science /
"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 th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 267 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822962953 (paperback) 0822962950 (paperback) |
