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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Susan C. Seymour , Susan C Seymour (Pitzer College, Claremont)Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.821kg ISBN: 9780803262959ISBN 10: 0803262957 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 01 May 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors' Introduction Preface Resources and Acknowledgments Prologue: Cora and Me Chapter 1. Tomgirl Chapter 2. Escape and Resolve Chapter 3. Becoming an Anthropologist Chapter 4. Culture and Personality Chapter 5. A Pioneer in Culture and Personality Research Chapter 6. World War II and the OSS Chapter 7. Disillusionment in the Cold War Era Chapter 8. Harvard, Crown of Roses or Thorns? Chapter 9. Sociocultural Change in India Chapter 10. Looking Inward Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsSusan Seymour has produced a captivating, extremely well-written narrative that has much to offer multiple audiences that include anthropologists and students of the history of ideas and social science, but also more general readers interested in the biography of a brilliant, independent gay woman who forged an important career in an era when social obstacles made such accomplishments very rare. --David H. Price, professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin's University and the author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State --David H. Price (09/16/2014) This book, Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent, deserves wide readership. Laura Nader, Los Angeles Review of Books --Laura Nader Los Angeles Review of Books (09/01/2015) Susan Seymour has written a captivating, extremely well-written narrative that has much to offer multiple audiences that include anthropologists and students of the history of ideas and social science, but also more general readers interested in the biography of a brilliant, independent gay women who forged an important career in an era when social obstacles made such accomplishments very rare. --David H. Price, professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin's University and the author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State --David H. Price (09/16/2014) Author InformationSusan C. Seymour is the Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. She is the author of several books, including Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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