Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science

by Risa Applegarth

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822962950
• ISBN13: 9780822962953
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"