Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology

by Richard Handler (Editor)

Overview

Anthropology is by definition about "others," but in this volume the phrase refers not to members of observed cultures, but to "significant others"—spouses, lovers, and others with whom anthropologists have deep relationships that are both personal and professional. The essays in this volume look at the roles of these spouses and partners of anthropologists over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially their work as they accompanied the anthropologists in the field. Other relationships discussed include those between anthropologists and informants, mentors and students, cohorts and partners, and parents and children. The book closes with a look at gender roles in the field, demonstrated by the "marriage" in the late nineteenth century of the male Anthropological Society of Washington to the Women’s Anthropological Society of America. Revealing relationships that were simultaneously deeply personal and professionally important, these essays bring a new depth of insight to the history of anthropology as a social science and human endeavor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299194703
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	03/25/2004
Series:	History of Anthropology , #10
Edition description:	1
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Handler is professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is author of Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec, and editor of Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Table of Contents

	Anthropology's Other Others	3
	"The Endless Conversation": Fieldwork, Writing, and the Marriage of Victor and Edith Turner	6
	Inverting the Camel's Hump: Jorge Dias, His Wife, Their Interpreter, and I	51
	The Director as Significant Other: Max Gluckman and Team Research at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute	91
	Boasian Cosmographic Anthropology and the Sociocentric Component of Mind	131
	Jaime de Angulo and Alfred Kroeber: Bohemians and Bourgeois in Berkeley Anthropology	158
	A. I. Hallowell's Boasian Evolutionism: Human Ir/rationality in Cross-Cultural, Evolutionary, and Personal Context	196
	It Was No "Pink Tea": Gender and American Anthropology, 1885-1903	261
	Index	291