Two Against the Tide The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- Methodology & History in Anthropology (Book 48)
- Author:
- Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen
- ISBN:
- 9781805395768
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781805395775
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Pages:
- 242
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2024-06-30
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- N/A
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Biographies and Memoirs, Nonfiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology