{"product_id":"maria-czaplicka-9781496222619","title":"Maria Czaplicka","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka (1884–1921) is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka, together with Bronislaw Malinowski, studied anthropology in London and later at Oxford, then she headed the Yenisei Expedition to Siberia (1914\u003ci\u003e–\u003c\/i\u003e15) and was the first female lecturer of anthropology at Oxford. Shewas an engaged feminist and an expert on political issues in Northern Asia and Eastern Europe. But this remarkable woman’s career was cut short by suicide. Like many women anthropologists of the time, Czaplicka journeyed through various academic institutions, and her legacy has been dispersed and her field materials lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Grazyna Kubica covers the major events in Czaplicka’s life and provides contextual knowledge about the intellectual formation in which Czaplicka grew up, including the Warsaw radical intelligentsia and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Grażyna Kubica has written a book significant in size and rich in material. . . . Written in a clear, convincing style, it engages the reader from the start. It will be of interest not only to cultural anthropologists but also to readers interested in the humanities and feminism. This book is an outstanding scholarly achievement.\"—Ewa Dzurak, \u003ci\u003ePolish Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Where Kubica's book makes the most unique contribution is in its discussion of Czaplicka's Polish background–both her academic affiliation with the Polish Radical Intelligentsia in chapter 4 and more uniquely still, in the discussion of her literary outputs in chapter 6–both contexts offer a fresh perspective on the international and interdisciplinary nature of the emerging discipline of Anthropology and Kubica is perfectly placed to tease out the nuances of political, national, and academic influences that shaped this new science.\"—Jaanika Vider, \u003ci\u003eAnthropos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grażyna Kubica examines Maria Czaplicka’s unfinished scientific legacy in this page-turner history of anthropology during wartime Britain. One review of Czaplicka’s account of her 1915 Siberian expedition proclaimed that she ‘could not be dull if she tried.’ Kubica offers a full and fitting tribute to Czaplicka’s indomitable spirit, her contributions to continuing debates, and the meaning of a truncated life in anthropology.”—Sally Cole, professor of sociology and anthropology at Concordia College and author of \u003ci\u003eRuth Landes: A Life in Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grażyna Kubica has provided us with an excellent study that combines a feminist social history with biographical research and directs our attention at an enigmatic figure standing at a critical juncture in the history of anthropology. In this lively and well-researched portrait of Czaplicka, an early transnational actor in the study of Siberia and beyond, Kubika has taken an important step toward providing an inclusive genealogy of our discipline.”—Peter Schweitzer, professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Series Editors’ Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Women in Anthropology, Biographies in Academia\u003cbr\u003e 1. History of Anthropology as a Contemporary Research Field\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Anthropological Biography as a New Genre of Historical Writing\u003cbr\u003e 3. Why Her, Why Me, and Methods of Research and Sources Review\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Warsaw Radical Intelligentsia at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e 5. Maria Czaplicka’s Family Background and Polish Youth\u003cbr\u003e 6. Love, a Novel, and Poetry in Zakopane\u003cbr\u003e 7. Female Anthropologists in the British Association for the Advancement of Science\u003cbr\u003e 8. Women in the Royal Anthropological Institute, Folklore Society, and Royal Geographical Society\u003cbr\u003e 9. London Studies and the Beginnings of Czaplicka’s English Career\u003cbr\u003e 10. Robert Marett and Anthropological Research on Religion\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Ups and Downs of Anthropological Racial Discourse\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Oxford School of Anthropology and Work on \u003ci\u003eAboriginal Siberia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Preparations for the Siberian Expedition and Its Participants\u003cbr\u003e 14. Summer on the Yenisei and Everyday Fieldwork\u003cbr\u003e 15. Winter in the Tundra and the Results of the Expedition\u003cbr\u003e 16. Czaplicka’s Shamanism in Theory and Practice\u003cbr\u003e 17. Deconstructing the Concept of “Arctic Hysteria”\u003cbr\u003e 18. Shamans and the Discourse of the Third Sex\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Intrepid Traveler Returns\u003cbr\u003e 20. Physical Anthropology and the Concept of Race in Czaplicka’s Research\u003cbr\u003e 21. \u003ci\u003eMy Siberian Year\u003c\/i\u003e as a Work of Literary Ethnographic Writing\u003cbr\u003e 22. Feeling at Home at Lady Margaret Hall and a New Life as an Oxford University Lecturer\u003cbr\u003e 23. A Trip Home and the Situation in Polish Ethnology\u003cbr\u003e 24. An Anthropologist Engaged in the Public Debate\u003cbr\u003e 25. America and Disillusionment\u003cbr\u003e 26. Another Visit to Poland, Work in Bristol, and a Tragic Decision\u003cbr\u003e 27. Research on Shamanism after Czaplicka and the Response to Her Work\u003cbr\u003e 28. “Through Arctic Siberia with My Camera,” or Biographies of Maria Czaplicka’s Field Photographs\u003cbr\u003e 29. Life after Life\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Czaplicka as a Person and the Social Processes in Her Life\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409233027415,"sku":"9781496222619","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496222619.jpg?v=1730506067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maria-czaplicka-9781496222619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}