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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... tribal historian, Johna- than Buffalo, to solicit his advice on how to proceed. Based on his advice, I wrote to Tribal ... council, whose members welcomed me to the community. I also received approval from the University of Michigan's ...
... tribal historian, Johna- than Buffalo, to solicit his advice on how to proceed. Based on his advice, I wrote to Tribal ... council, whose members welcomed me to the community. I also received approval from the University of Michigan's ...
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... tribal council. A war chief took charge in times of military conflict, but in times of peace a village chief was the community leader. Although the village chief generally was drawn from the Bear Clan within the tribe, the twelve-member ...
... tribal council. A war chief took charge in times of military conflict, but in times of peace a village chief was the community leader. Although the village chief generally was drawn from the Bear Clan within the tribe, the twelve-member ...
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... tribal council traditionally acted only after obtaining unanimous consent among its members. Council members discussed an issue until all agreed on an action. Without agreement, the council did not act. On some occasions, all adult ...
... tribal council traditionally acted only after obtaining unanimous consent among its members. Council members discussed an issue until all agreed on an action. Without agreement, the council did not act. On some occasions, all adult ...
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Action Anthropology Reconsidered Judith M. Daubenmier. to appoint a successor. A council ... council. One winter when Pushet- onequa was chief, the council needed to ... tribal dispute over the propriety of adopting white education, Davenport ...
Action Anthropology Reconsidered Judith M. Daubenmier. to appoint a successor. A council ... council. One winter when Pushet- onequa was chief, the council needed to ... tribal dispute over the propriety of adopting white education, Davenport ...
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... tribal council to call a meeting of the entire tribe and to put him in charge of a four-person committee to set up a tribal business committee. After the ira passed, the committee began working to draft a constitution under the new law ...
... tribal council to call a meeting of the entire tribe and to put him in charge of a four-person committee to set up a tribal business committee. After the ira passed, the committee began working to draft a constitution under the new law ...
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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