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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... funds to support my research. I also thank the Annals of Iowa for permission to use in this book those parts of an article that appeared in the journal under the title “Meskwaki Remember Action Anthropology” in the fall of 2003 (vol. 62 ...
... funds to support my research. I also thank the Annals of Iowa for permission to use in this book those parts of an article that appeared in the journal under the title “Meskwaki Remember Action Anthropology” in the fall of 2003 (vol. 62 ...
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... funds for only thirty-four law enforcement officers and one assistant to cover the Indian communities in sixteen states. In the Midwest immediately after World War II, one law enforcement officer covered Indians in Wisconsin, Minnesota ...
... funds for only thirty-four law enforcement officers and one assistant to cover the Indian communities in sixteen states. In the Midwest immediately after World War II, one law enforcement officer covered Indians in Wisconsin, Minnesota ...
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... funds the way they wished. They could not decide who was a Meskwaki and who was not. They could not protect themselves from arrest by outside authorities. Their attempt to run their own judicial system had failed, and county authorities ...
... funds the way they wished. They could not decide who was a Meskwaki and who was not. They could not protect themselves from arrest by outside authorities. Their attempt to run their own judicial system had failed, and county authorities ...
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... the end, since no funds ever materialized for it. Instead, by 1946 tight budgets approved by Congress forced the bureau to begin thinking about a reduced role for itself on a much 58 making the modern meskwaki nation.
... the end, since no funds ever materialized for it. Instead, by 1946 tight budgets approved by Congress forced the bureau to begin thinking about a reduced role for itself on a much 58 making the modern meskwaki nation.
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... funds in 1948 that money for medical care for the Meskwaki ran out midyear, and pregnant women delivered their babies at home with the help of midwives instead of going to the hospital. Clearly, the bureau intended to cut back its ...
... funds in 1948 that money for medical care for the Meskwaki ran out midyear, and pregnant women delivered their babies at home with the help of midwives instead of going to the hospital. Clearly, the bureau intended to cut back its ...
Índice
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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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