Chicanery: Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920-1960

by Christine Winter, Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues' intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors' reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800739702
• ISBN13: 9781800739703
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"