Intrepid Women

Adventures in Anthropology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The extraordinary women featured in this book defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out ground breaking field research in distant parts of the world where ‘ladies’ were not meant to travel. Here you will meet Barbara Freire-Marreco living among Pueblo people in south-western USA; Maria Czaplicka with reindeer herders of Siberia; Beatrice Blackwood in remote villages of Papua New Guinea; Elsie McDougall among textile artists in Mexico and Guatemala; and Ursula Graham Bower in the Naga Hills of north-east India. Bower was even made an honorary Captain in the British Army leading an irregular force of Naga men in scouting operations against the Japanese during the Second World War.These pioneering anthropologists learned local languages, established relationships across supposed cultural boundaries, insisted on the dignity of humanity in all cultural settings and documented with remarkable meticulousness the lives of the peoples with whom they lived and worked. One woman, the Māori scholar Mākereti, wrote about her own people, but spent the final years of her life far from home in Oxfordshire. Each of these women collected objects and left archives of photographs, manuscripts, diaries and letters, which tell the inspirational stories of their encounters and adventures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-08
Mått172 x 230 x 26 mm
Vikt749 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBodleian Library
ISBN9781851246502

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Introduction Julia NicholsonBarbara Freire-Marreco: New Mexico and Arizona, 1910–13 21, Zena McGreevyMaria Czaplicka: Siberia, 1914–15 51, Julia NicholsonBeatrice Blackwood: North America and Melanesia, 1924–38 83, Jeremy Coote and Chantal KnowlesMākereti: Aotearoa New Zealand and Oxford, 1926–30 115, Ngahuia te Awekotuku and Jeremy CooteElsie McDougall: Mexico and Guatemala, 1926–40 141, Joanna ColeUrsula Graham Bower: Naga Hills, 1937–45 175, Julia NicholsonNotesAcknowledgementsFurther ReadingContributorsIndex

I bought Intrepid Women: Adventures in anthropology, edited by Julia Nicholson (Bodleian), to look at the pictures and to remind myself of the exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in 2018, but I ended up reading every word. The illustrations are splendid, but so is the text. It’s by several authors and describes the adventures of six pioneering women anthropologists in the first half of the last century, and takes us to some far-flung places, ranging from Siberia to Guatemala. The cover shows the extraordinarily beautiful Maori Mākereti, who is buried in an Oxfordshire churchyard, and the volume contains glorious photographs of textiles, pottery, feathered headgear, clothing and ornaments. My favourite photo is a group of smiling Anga warriors in Papua New Guinea, 1936, being introduced to Beatrice Blackwood’s kitten Sally. There is something enchanting about this captured moment. It may not be the most scholarly of images, but it cheers the heart.