Ruth Landes : A Life in Anthropology
by
Sally Cole
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
ISBN-10
0803222459
ISBN-13
9780803222458
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Imprint
University of Nebraska Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2007
Print length
315 Pages
Weight
482 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: generalBiography: generalAnthropology
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A biography that reconsiders Landes' life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict.
Ruth Landes (1908–91) is now recognized as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations. Ahead of her time in many respects, Landes worked with issues that defined the central debates in the discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In Ruth Landes, Sally Cole reconsiders Landes''s life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology.
The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict. Landes''s rejection of domestic life led to an early divorce. Her ideas regarding gender roles also shaped her 1930s fieldwork among the Ojibwa, where she worked closely with Maggie Wilson to produce a masterpiece study of gender relations, The Ojibwa Woman. Her growing prominence and subsequent work in Bahia, Brazil, was marked by outstanding fieldwork and another landmark study, The City of Women. This was a tumultuous time for Landes, who was accused of being a spy, and her remarkable work fed the envy of such prominent scholars as Melville Herskovits and Margaret Mead. Ultimately, however, the errors and excesses that her critics complained of long ago now point us to the innovations for which she is responsible and that give her work its lasting value and power.
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