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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... study was irrelevant to the pressing needs of the tribe.1 One of Tax's students who had accompanied him on the visit, Walter Miller, delivered a defense of the social sciences based on the need to understand how society worked before ...
... study was irrelevant to the pressing needs of the tribe.1 One of Tax's students who had accompanied him on the visit, Walter Miller, delivered a defense of the social sciences based on the need to understand how society worked before ...
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... social sciences in the modern world . Davenport's question touched on an issue that had stirred sharp debates among anthropologists and other social scientists in recent years . In his own way , Davenport was re - asking the question ...
... social sciences in the modern world . Davenport's question touched on an issue that had stirred sharp debates among anthropologists and other social scientists in recent years . In his own way , Davenport was re - asking the question ...
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... social scientists abandoned their stance of detachment from their objects of study. Typical was the stiff criticism that greeted Tax at a December 1957 symposium sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation entitled “Val- ues in Action ...
... social scientists abandoned their stance of detachment from their objects of study. Typical was the stiff criticism that greeted Tax at a December 1957 symposium sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation entitled “Val- ues in Action ...
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Action Anthropology Reconsidered Judith M. Daubenmier. mainly amateur armchair anthropologists rather than scientists ... social evolu- tion of the Senecas, focusing on kinship relations, and ... studies of non- European peoples and encouraged ...
Action Anthropology Reconsidered Judith M. Daubenmier. mainly amateur armchair anthropologists rather than scientists ... social evolu- tion of the Senecas, focusing on kinship relations, and ... studies of non- European peoples and encouraged ...
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... scientists or intellec- tuals committed to the improvement of society ... social turmoil of that decade prompted anthropologists to ask themselves ... social scientists increasingly examined their involvement with government work and ...
... scientists or intellec- tuals committed to the improvement of society ... social turmoil of that decade prompted anthropologists to ask themselves ... social scientists increasingly examined their involvement with government work and ...
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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