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Significant
Others
Interpersonal and Professional
Commitments in Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
History of Anthropology (VOLUME TEN)
Richard Handler, Series Editor
Together in the field
“A winsome and intelligent young lady . . . used to do typing
for [an anthropologist]. . . . On his birthday she brought him
a sheaf of typescript in gift wrappings. It was the whole of
[Edward Sapir’s] ‘Time Perspective,’ which she had meticulously
copied. He married her.”
—David Mendelbaum, 1949
Anthropology is by definition about “others,” but in
this volume the phrase refers not to members of observed cultures,
but to “significant others”—spouses, lovers, and
others with whom anthropologists have deep relationships that
are both personal and professional. The essays in this volume
look at the roles of these spouses and partners of anthropologists
over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially
their work as they accompanied the anthropologists in the field.
Other relationships discussed include those between anthropologists
and informants, mentors and students, cohorts and partners, and
parents and children. The book closes with a look at gender roles
in the field, demonstrated by the “marriage” in the
late nineteenth century of the male Anthropological Society of
Washington to the Women’s Anthropological Society of America.
Richard Handler is professor of anthropology at the University
of Virginia. He is author of Nationalism and the Politics
of Culture in Quebec and editor of Excluded
Ancestors, Inventible Traditions, both published by the
University of Wisconsin Press.
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January 2003
352 pp. 6 x 9
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