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Rhetoric in American anthropology : gender, genre, and science /

"In 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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Applegarth, Risa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
©2014
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 and Situated Representations; 4. Ethnographic Novels: Educational Critiques and Rhetorical Trajectories; Conclusion: Rhetorical Archaeology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.