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The Meskwaki and anthropologists [electronic resource] : Action Anthropology reconsidered / Judith M. Daubenmier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical studies in the history of anthropologyPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803218741
  • 0803218745
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Meskwaki and anthropologists.DDC classification:
  • 977.70497/314 22
LOC classification:
  • E99.F7 D38 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Making the modern Meskwaki Nation -- Sol Tax and the value of anthropology -- "Science has to stop somewhere" -- Action Anthropology and the values question -- 1954--Project Nadir and rebound -- Fruits of Action Anthropology.
Summary: The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of practicing anthropology proposed by anthropologists and graduate students at the University of Chicago in response to pressure from the Meskwaki. Action Anthropology, as the program was called, attempted to more evenly distribute the benefits of anthropology by way of anthropologists helping the Native.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-403) and index.

Making the modern Meskwaki Nation -- Sol Tax and the value of anthropology -- "Science has to stop somewhere" -- Action Anthropology and the values question -- 1954--Project Nadir and rebound -- Fruits of Action Anthropology.

The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of practicing anthropology proposed by anthropologists and graduate students at the University of Chicago in response to pressure from the Meskwaki. Action Anthropology, as the program was called, attempted to more evenly distribute the benefits of anthropology by way of anthropologists helping the Native.

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