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Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science
Carine Risa Applegar
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Paperback. Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the “welcoming science,” uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the “rhetorical archeology” of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists. Applegarth examines the crucial role of ethnographic genres in determining scientific status and recovers the work of marginalized anthropologists who developed alternative forms of scientific writing.
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In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the “welcoming science,” uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the “rhetorical archeology” of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists. Applegarth examines the crucial role of ethnographic genres in determining scientific status and recovers the work of marginalized anthropologists who developed alternative forms of scientific writing.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822962953
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V9780822962953
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About Carine Risa Applegar
Risa Applegarth is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Conference on College Comp
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