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Rhetoric in American Anthropology : Gender, Genre, and Science.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Composition, Literacy, and Culture SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822979470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric in American AnthropologyDDC classification:
  • 301.01/4
LOC classification:
  • GN308
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender, Genre, and Knowledge in the Welcoming Science -- 1. Ethnographic Monographs: Genre Change and Rhetorical Scarcity -- 2. Field Autobiographies: Rhetorical Recruitment and Embodied Ethnography -- 3. Folklore Collections: Professional Positions andSituated Representations -- 4. Ethnographic Novels: Educational Critiques and Rhetorical Trajectories -- Conclusion: Rhetorical Archaeology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Winner, 2016 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardIn 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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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender, Genre, and Knowledge in the Welcoming Science -- 1. Ethnographic Monographs: Genre Change and Rhetorical Scarcity -- 2. Field Autobiographies: Rhetorical Recruitment and Embodied Ethnography -- 3. Folklore Collections: Professional Positions andSituated Representations -- 4. Ethnographic Novels: Educational Critiques and Rhetorical Trajectories -- Conclusion: Rhetorical Archaeology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Winner, 2016 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardIn 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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