Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

von Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

246 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781805395768
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2024
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books