Title:
An anthropologist's arrival : a memoir / Ruth M. Underhill ; edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Nash.
Author:
Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984.
Publication Information:
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2014]
Call Number:
GN21 .U48 A3 2014
Abstract:
"Ruth Underhill's intriguing memoir traces the story of her life, delving into the Depression, the famous anthropologists in her circle, and her fieldwork with a keen ethnographic eye. Underhill describes the Victorian society that first bound her and then ultimately enabled her success as a major figure in anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780816530601
Physical Description:
xii, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Part I. Becoming Ruth Underhill -- A zigzag life -- Do good to others -- Mother was an angel, Part 1. -- They were Murrays -- Abram S. Underhill -- Mother was an angel, Part 2 -- Youth passing -- Quakers and Darwin -- Picnics and dances -- Vassar and Europe -- The society -- The big love -- World War I -- A marriage begins and ends -- Part two: Becoming an anthropologist -- Columbia, Part 1 -- Papa Franz -- Coming of age in Arizona -- Henrietta -- Chona and the O'odham -- Columbia, Part 2 -- The fruit of the saguaro -- Indian affairs -- Around the world -- We're going to live this year.
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