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Anthropology and Radical Humanism : Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race /

"Paul Radin, ethnographer of the Winnebago, joined Fisk University in the late 1920s. During his three-year appointment, he and graduate student, Andrew Polk Watson, collected autobiographies and religious conversion narratives from elderly African Americans. Their texts represented the first s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glazier, Jack (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Tribal Nomenclature
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Unsettled Career of a Radical Humanist
  • Chapter 2. Our Science and Its Wholesome Influence: Anthropology against Racism
  • Chapter 3. From Object to Subject: Centering African American Lives at Fisk University
  • Chapter 4. The Radin-Watson Collection: Narratives of Slavery and Transcendence
  • Chapter 5. The Winnebago Narrations: Tradition and Transformation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index