Two Against the Tide: The Shared Career and Lost Legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

By Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Seligman was a groundbreaking pioneer of ethnographic work in Oceania and Africa. He treated shellshocked soldiers, he amassed museum collections and he fathered a generation of exceptional students. Brenda, his first student, became a scholar in her own right. Eighty years after his death, the Seligman legacy was deleted from the institution he began. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805395769
• ISBN13: 9781805395768
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"