The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology ReconsideredU of Nebraska Press, 01/01/2008 - 416 páginas The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago s innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of practicing anthropology proposed by anthropologists and graduate students at the University of Chicago in response to pressure from the Meskwaki. Action Anthropology, as the program was called, attempted to more evenly distribute the benefits of anthropology by way of anthropologists helping the Native communities they studied. The legacy of Action Anthropology has received limited attention, but even less is known about how the Meskwakis participated in creating it and shaping the way it functioned. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival records, Judith M. Daubenmier tells the story from the viewpoint of the Meskwaki themselves. The Meskwaki alternatively cooperated with, befriended, ignored, prodded, and collided with their scholarly visitors in trying to get them to understand that the values of reciprocity within Meskwaki culture required people to give something if they expected to get something. Daubenmier sheds light on the economic and political impact of the program on the community and how some Meskwaki manipulated the anthropologists and students through their own expectations of reciprocity and gender roles. Giving weight to the opinions, actions, and motivations of the Meskwaki, Daubenmier assesses more fully and appropriately the impact of Action Anthropology on the Meskwaki settlement and explores its legacy outside the settlement s confines. In so doing, she also encourages further consideration of the ongoing relationships between scholars and Indigenous peoples today. |
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... Sol Tax and the Value of Anthropology 64 3. " Science Has to Stop Somewhere ” 109 4. Action Anthropology and the Values Question 154 5. 1954 - Project Nadir and Rebound 189 6. Fruits of Action Anthropology 227 Epilogue 275 Appendix 1 ...
... Sol Tax and the Value of Anthropology 64 3. " Science Has to Stop Somewhere ” 109 4. Action Anthropology and the Values Question 154 5. 1954 - Project Nadir and Rebound 189 6. Fruits of Action Anthropology 227 Epilogue 275 Appendix 1 ...
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... Sol Tax's “action anthropology” project with the Meskwaki community at Tama, Iowa, has been lauded in the received history of Americanist anthropology as an early successful attempt to combine the scientific aims of anthropology, the ...
... Sol Tax's “action anthropology” project with the Meskwaki community at Tama, Iowa, has been lauded in the received history of Americanist anthropology as an early successful attempt to combine the scientific aims of anthropology, the ...
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... Tax had been involved as a student during the early 1930s . This is not a biography of Sol Tax . In fact , he is sometimes a rather shadowy and distant figure in the narrative . But his commitment to making ethnography a more ...
... Tax had been involved as a student during the early 1930s . This is not a biography of Sol Tax . In fact , he is sometimes a rather shadowy and distant figure in the narrative . But his commitment to making ethnography a more ...
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... Sol Tax get out of the car on the road by his home on the Meskwaki settle- ment near Tama, Iowa. It had been thirteen years since the Univer- sity of Chicago professor had visited the community where he did research for his dissertation ...
... Sol Tax get out of the car on the road by his home on the Meskwaki settle- ment near Tama, Iowa. It had been thirteen years since the Univer- sity of Chicago professor had visited the community where he did research for his dissertation ...
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... Sol Tax, Bob Thomas, was one of the first scholars to think of American Indians as being in a colonial situation analogous to that of colonies of European nations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Sources This project was ...
... Sol Tax, Bob Thomas, was one of the first scholars to think of American Indians as being in a colonial situation analogous to that of colonies of European nations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Sources This project was ...
Índice
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2 Sol Tax and the Value of Anthropology | 64 |
3 Science Has to Stop Somewhere | 109 |
4 Action Anthropology and the Values Question | 154 |
5 1954Project Nadir and Rebound | 189 |
6 Fruits of Action Anthropology | 227 |
Epilogue | 275 |
Participants in University of Chicago Project at Tama Iowa 19481958 | 309 |
Publications Related to Meskwaki | 313 |
Notes | 317 |
Bibliography | 383 |
Index | 405 |
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