Transformational Journeys: An Ethnologist's Memoir, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 106, Part 5)

by Victoria Reifler Bricker

This is the professional memoir of an ethnologist, who studies the cultures and languages of ethnic groups, in the present and in the past. Bricker's journeys -- from Hong Kong to Shanghai during World War II, to the U.S. after the war, to Germany, Harvard, southeastern Mexico, and eventually to New Orleans -- influenced her choice of ethnology as a career and shaped that career over 50 years. Ethnology served as the stepping stone for intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180657
• ISBN13: 9781606180655
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 344 Pages