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Journeys West: Jane and Julian Steward and Their Guides
Virginia Kerns
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Description for Journeys West: Jane and Julian Steward and Their Guides
hardcover. Provides a detailed examination of the fieldwork and methodologies, as well as the human element in research, of anthropologist Julian Steward in the Great Basin during the 1930s. Num Pages: 444 pages, 27 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
Journeys West traces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward’s classic ethnography. Besides humanizing Steward’s cultural informants—revealing them as distinct individuals and also as first-generation survivors of an ecological crisis caused by American settlement of their lands—Kerns shows how the elders worked with Steward. Each helped to construct an ethnographic portrait of ... Read more
Journeys West traces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward’s classic ethnography. Besides humanizing Steward’s cultural informants—revealing them as distinct individuals and also as first-generation survivors of an ecological crisis caused by American settlement of their lands—Kerns shows how the elders worked with Steward. Each helped to construct an ethnographic portrait of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803225084
SKU
V9780803225084
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About Virginia Kerns
Virginia Kerns is a professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory and Women and the Ancestors: Black Carib Kinship and Ritual.
Reviews for Journeys West: Jane and Julian Steward and Their Guides
""Interweaving colonist history with ecological changes and Indian efforts to survive, Kerns provides a road-trip story—an honest Bonnie and Clyde driving and driving the West—illuminating a crucial stage in an anthropological theorist's career.""—A.B. Kehoe, CHOICE|""[Journeys West is] an excellent study of the man, his strategy, the people he encountered, and his Great Basin fieldwork.""—Catherine S. Fowler, Current Anthropology|""Virginia Kerns has ... Read more