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Cora Du Bois

Author : Susan Christine Seymour
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803274289
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Cora Du Bois written by Susan Christine Seymour and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change. Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and Robert Lowie. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the OSS branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor, with tenure, appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association. Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially while facing the FBI's harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements in Vietnam and as a "liberal" lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan C. Seymour's biography weaves together Du Bois's personal and professional lives to illustrate this exceptional "first woman" and the complexities of the twentieth century that she both experienced and influenced.

The People of Alor

Author : Cora Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The People of Alor written by Cora Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cora Du Bois

Author : Susan C. Seymour
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803262957
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Cora Du Bois written by Susan C. Seymour and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict and Alfred Kroeber. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the OSS branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association. Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially while facing the FBI's harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements in Vietnam and as a "liberal" lesbian during the McCarthy era.

The Remembered Village

Author : M. N. Srinivas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341635
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Remembered Village written by M. N. Srinivas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."--Cora Du Bois, Asian Student "Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced."--David G. Mandelbaum, Economic and Political Weekly "[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer. . . . must reading."--Robert H. Lauer, Sociology: Reviews of New Books

Papers of Cora Du Bois

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Papers of Cora Du Bois written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes student papers at Harvard, some containing Du Bois' notations. Also manuscripts relating to value studies, 1951-1960; seminar on symbolism, 1956-1957; and Harvard Project on Socio-Cultural Aspects of Development in 1964.

The Psychological Frontiers of Society

Author : Abram Kardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Psychological Frontiers of Society written by Abram Kardiner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives

Author : A. Elisabeth Reichel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227522
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives written by A. Elisabeth Reichel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives re-examines the poetry and scholarship of three of the foremost figures in the twentieth-century history of U.S.-American anthropology: Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict. While they are widely renowned for their contributions to Franz Boas's early twentieth-century school of cultural relativism, what is far less known is their shared interest in probing the representational potential of different media and forms of writing. This dimension of their work is manifest in Sapir's critical writing on music and literature and Mead's groundbreaking work with photography and film. Sapir, Mead, and Benedict together also wrote more than one thousand poems, which in turn negotiate their own media status and rivalry with other forms of representation. A. Elisabeth Reichel presents the first sustained study of the published and unpublished poetry of Sapir, Mead, and Benedict, charting this largely unexplored body of work and relevant selections of the writers' scholarship. In addition to its expansion of early twentieth-century literary canons, Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives contributes to current debates about the relations between different media, sign systems, and modes of sense perception in literature and other media. Reichel offers a unique contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by noted early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists. Access the OA edition here.

Cora Du Bois

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Cora Du Bois written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 1870 Ghost Dance

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The 1870 Ghost Dance written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wintu Ethnography

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher : Berkeley ; s.n.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Wintu Ethnography written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by Berkeley ; s.n.. This book was released on 1935 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Psychodynamics of Culture

Author : William Manson
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Psychodynamics of Culture written by William Manson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-11-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manson's study . . . is devoted to retrieving Kardiner from the limbo into which he lapsed some 30 years ago. The author offers a historical reconstruction of the classic psychocultural seminars and reassesses the theoretical and methodological innovations that emerged from them. As a historian Manson displays an impressive command of his materials. He does an admirable job of summarizing the ethnographic data on which Kardiner based his psychodynamic formulations and interpretations. He even manages to evoke something of the emotional flavor of the seminar sessions and the very different personalities involved. This is a consequence of his judicious use of rich primary sources: the exhaustive unpublished reminiscences of Kardiner himself, the private papers of Margaret Mead, and the recollections and/or seminar notes of Aberle, Barnouw, Du Bois and others. . . . a most worthwhile volume, one that should be read by specialists in culture and personality. American Anthropologist While a number of anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s incorporated isolated elements of Freudian theory into their studies of the interplay of culture and personality, the psychoanalyst Abram Kardiner transcended disciplinary boundaries to forge a genuine psychocultural synthesis. Although the importance of Kardiner's pathbreaking The Individual and His Society is sometimes acknowledged, William Manson argues that Kardiner's work has often been overlooked or misinterpreted by social scientists and psychiatrists. In this first comprehensive study of Kardiner's theoretical contributions, Manson traces the development of Kardiners's psychodynamic formulations and evaluates the impact of his model on neo-Freudian culture-and-personality research and psychological anthropology in general. The author discusses Kardiner's extended collaboration with leading anthropologists, which resulted in the creation of a psychocultural model for personality formation in different societies. He examines Kardiner's theory of culturally conditioned basic personality and the psychocultural technique for studying the interrelationships of specific cultural practices, personality adaptation, and supernatural belief systems. Manson's analysis places Kardiner's theories in the wider context of concurrent neo-Freudian approaches in anthropology and parallel developments in culturalist psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary social science. A balanced and lucid assessment of a major figure in psychological anthropology, this work will be of interest for psychoanalytic studies, cultural and psychological anthropology, psychodynamics, cross-cultural psychology, and the history of the social/behavioral sciences.

Culture and Personality

Author : University Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Anthony F C Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258237783
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Personality written by University Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Anthony F C Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Works

Author : Iris Bohnet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674089030
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book What Works written by Iris Bohnet and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a new solution. Iris Bohnet shows that by de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts—often at low cost and high speed.

Encountering China

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674983351
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Encountering China written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the nation’s swift embrace of a market economy—a guide whose communitarian ideas resonate with aspects of China’s own rich and ancient philosophical traditions. Chinese citizens often describe a sense that, in sprinting ahead, they have bounded past whatever barriers once held back the forces of corruption and moral disregard. The market economy has lifted millions from poverty but done little to define ultimate goals for individuals or the nation. Is the market all there is? In this context, Sandel’s charismatic, interactive lecturing style, which roots moral philosophy in real-world scenarios, has found an audience struggling with questions of their responsibility to one another. Encountering China brings together leading experts in Confucian and Daoist thought to explore the connections and tensions revealed in this unlikely episode of Chinese engagement with the West. The result is a profound examination of diverse ideas about the self, justice, community, gender, and public good. With a foreword by Evan Osnos that considers Sandel’s fame and the state of moral dialogue in China, the book will itself be a major contribution to the debates that Sandel sparks in East and West alike.

James Baldwin

Author : Bill Schwarz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027611
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin written by Bill Schwarz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility, of being a black 'American' writer. He took these issues 'Beyond'---Paris, Istanbul, various parts of Africa---but this formative experience only returned him to the unresolved dilemmas. He was a fine novelist and a major prophetic political voice. He produced some of the most important essays of the twentieth century and addressed in depth the complexities of the black political movement. His relative invisibility almost lost us one of the most significant voices of his generation. This welcome 'revival' retrieves it. Close call." ---Stuart Hall, Professor Emeritus, Open University This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American—“as American as any Texas GI” as he once wryly put it—and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. His ambivalent imaginings of America were always mediated by his conception of a world “beyond” America: a world he knew both from his travels and from his voracious reading. He was a man whose instincts were, at every turn, nurtured by America; but who at the same time developed a ferocious critique of American exceptionalism. In seeking to understand how, as an American, he could learn to live with difference—breaking the power of fundamentalisms of all stripes—he opened an urgent, timely debate that is still ours. His America was an idea fired by desire and grief in equal measure. As the authors assembled here argue, to read him now allows us to imagine new possibilities for the future. With contributions by Kevin Birmingham, Douglas Field, Kevin Gaines, Briallen Hopper, Quentin Miller, Vaughn Rasberry, Robert Reid-Pharr, George Shulman, Hortense Spillers, Colm Tóibín, Eleanor W. Traylor, Cheryl A. Wall, and Magdalena Zaborowska.

Social Forces in Southeast Asia

Author : Cora Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674492530
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Social Forces in Southeast Asia written by Cora Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social Forces in Southeast Asia " was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Forces are at work in Southeast Asia which deserve the most judicious attention of diplomats, the best analysis by social scientists, and a highly serious interest on the part of all responsible people in the Western World." The application of cultural anthropology to problems of world politics and economics presented here has been made by a ranking authority in the field. Dr. Du Bois is the author of "The People of Alor " and before World War Two she was anthropologist at Sarah Lawrence College. During the war she was associated with the Office of Strategic Services in charge of Indonesian and South Asian research, with headquarters at Kandy, Ceylon. Since October 1945 she has been chief of the Southern Areas Branch, Office of Intelligence Research, Department of State. Siam, Burma, French Indochina, Malaya, and Indonesian Archipelago, and the Philippines offer a geographic unit rich in material for the social scientist, including, as it does, more diverse cultural strains than any other area of the world. The author considers the impact of European colonization on the region, analyzes the tensions created by value difference between East and West, and offers predictions on the course Southeast Asia will take in the future. Dr. Du Bois has risen above statistical science and narrow specialization to wide interpretation and application. The book is full of exciting theses and suggestive ideas which should open new areas for both factual investigation and creative speculation. Dr. Du Bois sees a growing consciousness of nationality in these states of Southeast Asia--and eagerness to work out their common problems and a desire to participate in the United Nations, but she does not minimize the grave economic difficulties of the area or the chance that it will become another powder keg if the states become pawns of the big powers.

Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics

Author : Cora Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989848
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics written by Cora Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cora Diamond follows two major philosophers as they think about thinking, and about our ability to respond to thinking that has gone astray. Acting as both witness to and participant in the encounter, she provides fresh perspective on the value of Wittgenstein’s and Anscombe’s work, and demonstrates what genuinely independent thought can achieve.