Hidden scholars : women anthropologists and the Native American Southwest

Women Scholars, Writers, Curators, And Philanthropists Have Played Important Roles In The Study Of Native American Cultures Of The Southwest. For Much Of The Twentieth Century, However, Their Work Has Been Overlooked. The Essays In This Book, Which Grew Out Of The Landmark Conference Known As Daughters Of The Desert, Help To Rectify The Appropriation, Erasure, Disparagement, And Invisibility That Many Women Anthropologists Have Suffered. A Number Of Essays Are Biographical Or Intellectual Histories, Such As Parezo On Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Hieb On Elsie Clews Parsons, Babcock On Ruth Benedict, Lamphere On Gladys Reichard, And Lange On Esther Goldfrank. Others Provide An Overview Of Women Archaeologists (cordell), Philanthropists (mcgreevy), And Popular Writers (tisdale). Still Others Assess The Contributions Of Women To A Particular Subfield, Such As Sand On The Yaquis And Hinton On Women Linguists. This Volume Goes Beyond Celebration, However, To Provide A Critical Contribution To Anthropological History.--jacket. Anthropology: The Welcoming Science / Nancy J. Parezo -- Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneer Ethnologist / Nancy J. Parezo -- / Elsie Clews Parsons In The Southwest / Louis A. Hieb -- Daughters Of Affluence: Wealth, Collecting, And Southwestern Institutions / Susan Brown Mcgreevy -- Not In The Absolute Singular: Rereading Ruth Benedict / Barbara A. Babcock -- Among Women: Gender And Ethnographic Authority Of The Southwest, 1930-1980 / Deborah Gordon -- Women Researchers And The Yaquis In Arizona And Sonora / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Gladys Reichard Among The Navajo / Louise Lamphere -- Women In Applied Anthropology In The Southwest / Katherine Spencer Halpern -- Women Archaeologists In The Southwest / Linda S. Cordell -- The Contributions Of Esther S. Goldfrank / Charles H. Lange -- Women In Southwestern Linguistic Studies / Leanne Hinton -- Zuni Potters And The Pueblo Potter: The Contributions Of Ruth Bunzel / Margaret A. Hardin -- In The Realm Of The Muses / Nancy J. Parezo And Margaret A. Hardin -- The Women Who Opened Doors: Interviewing Southwestern Anthropologists / Jennifer Fox -- Women On The Periphery Of The Ivory Tower / Shelby J. Tisdale. Nancy J. Parezo, Editor ; Foreword By Nathalie F.s. And Richard B. Woodbury. Based On A Conference Held Mar. 1986 In Tucson, Ariz. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 369-412) And Index. Analyzes the role women scholars have played understanding and interpreting Native American cultures of the Southwest.