Description
Book SynopsisIlluminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. Drawing on interviews and archival records, this work tells the story from the viewpoint of the Meskwaki themselves. It also assesses the impact of Action Anthropology on the Meskwaki settlement.
Trade Review"This inspiring reconsideration of an important moment in twentieth-century American anthropology is richly annotated, with an excellent index and bibliography and two appendices listing the participants in the project and the published works that emerged. The book leaves the reader with a better understanding of the possibilities for and complexities of collaborative ethnographic work."—Larry Nesper,
Collaborative Anthropologies"Timely and appealing to social scientists and activists who continue to wrestle together with questions of values, leadership, and voice as they work toward new models of collaborative, transformative research."—Dana E. Powell,
Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements
Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making the Modern Meskwaki Nation
Chapter 2: Sol Tax and the Value of Anthropology
Chapter 3: ‘Science Has to Stop Somewhere’
Chapter 4: Action Anthropology and the Values Question
Chapter 5: 1954—Project Nadir and Rebound
Chapter 6: Fruits of Action Anthropology
Epilogue
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index
