Powdermaker, Hortense /
Hortense Powdermaker (1886-1970) was an American anthropologist with ties to both British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology. She is best known for having written one of the earliest first-person accounts of fieldwork experiences, Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Qualitative interviewing.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Hortense Powdermaker (1886-1970) was an American anthropologist with ties to both British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology. She is best known for having written one of the earliest first-person accounts of fieldwork experiences, Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist (1966), published only 4 years before her death. Powdermaker was a pioneering ethnographer who was the first woman to undertake fieldwork in New Guinea and one of the first anthropologists to do research among African Americans in the United States. She also produced the first ethnographic study of the Hollywood film industry. She made significant and lasting contributions to studies of media, racial relations, the study of contemporary societies, and to humanistic approaches in anthropology. Although she never received the recognition during her ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746402 152974640X 9781526421036 1526421038 |