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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... 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 ...
... 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's efforts influenced a major change in the U.S. gov- ernment's Indian policy from coerced assimilation to recognizing sovereignty and encouraging self - determination . Tax also was cen- trally involved in facilitating a pan ...
... Tax's efforts influenced a major change in the U.S. gov- ernment's Indian policy from coerced assimilation to recognizing sovereignty and encouraging self - determination . Tax also was cen- trally involved in facilitating a pan ...
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... Tax's determination to internationalize the anthropological voice to include those who had formerly been the studied populations . All of these commitments remain germane and compelling . Introduction On July 15, 1948, Ed Davenport was ...
... Tax's determination to internationalize the anthropological voice to include those who had formerly been the studied populations . All of these commitments remain germane and compelling . Introduction On July 15, 1948, Ed Davenport was ...
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... Tax had come, to talk about the state of the Meskwaki people and how they had changed in recent years. After answering Tax's questions about education, a new law enforcement arrangement for the settlement, and political divisions within ...
... Tax had come, to talk about the state of the Meskwaki people and how they had changed in recent years. After answering Tax's questions about education, a new law enforcement arrangement for the settlement, and political divisions within ...
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... Tax's correspondence with Robert Redfield, his mentor and eventual colleague at the University of Chicago, and the records of the An- thropology Department itself. Tax donated the project papers to the National Anthropological Archives ...
... Tax's correspondence with Robert Redfield, his mentor and eventual colleague at the University of Chicago, and the records of the An- thropology Department itself. Tax donated the project papers to the National Anthropological Archives ...
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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